Novel Bodies : Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farr, Jason S., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
English fiction.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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).

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