Body in Swift and Defoe

Klappentext Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human! the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society! as it is revealed in its literature. Zusammenfassung Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human! the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society! as it is revealed in its literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: literary remains: the body as matter for text; 1. Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year; 2. The burthen in the belly; 3. Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems; 4. Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies; 5. The ladies: d--ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts; 6. Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor; 7. Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift; Afterword: ... suppose me dead; and then suppose ...; Notes.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Houlihan Flynn
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), John J. Richetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.1990
• EAN: 9780521382687
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38268-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Astrophysics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies