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Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature
Title
Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr.
ISBN
9781684481088
1684481082
9781684481071
1684481074
9781684481095
9781684481118
Publication
Lewisburg, Pennseylvania : Bucknell University, University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
vii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Other formats
Online version: Farr, Jason S., 1978- author. Novel bodies. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University, 2019.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2019
Series
Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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