Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature /

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Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. In imagining the liv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farr, Jason S., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University, 2019.
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
Temas:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
Sex in literature.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Personnes handicapées.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
People with disabilities
English fiction
People with disabilities in literature
Sex in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: disability and the literary history of sexuality. Deaf education and queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732)
  • The reforming bodies of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott's fiction (1754-66)
  • Chronic illness, medicine, and the healthy marriages of Tobias Smollett's The expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
  • Gendered disfigurement and queer ocular relations in Frances Burney's Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801)
  • Coda: hypochondria and the implausibility of heterosexual romance in Jane Austen's Sanditon (1807).

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