Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr
- Author:
- Farr, Jason S., 1978-
- Published:
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University, University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description:
- vii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
- 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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- ISBN:
- 9781684481088 hardcover alkaline paper
1684481082 hardcover alkaline paper
9781684481071 paperback alkaline paper
1684481074 paperback alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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