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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farr, Jason S., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University, 2019.
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).