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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg, PA :
Bucknell University,
2019.
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| 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).