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

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Novel Bodies examines the significant role that disability plays in shaping the British literary history of sexuality. 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 lived experience of disability as analogous to—and as informed by—queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured reveal emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy.
 


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Introduction: Disability and the Literary History of Sexuality

1 Deaf Education and Queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732)

2 The Reforming Bodies of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott's Fiction (1754-66)

3 Chronic Illness, Medicine, and the Healthy Marriages of Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

4 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 (1817)

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index


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JASON S. FARR is an assistant professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 


Summary

Examines the significant role that disability plays in shaping 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.

Product details

Authors Jason S Farr, Jason S. Farr
Publisher Rutgers University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2019
 
EAN 9781684481071
ISBN 978-1-68448-107-1
No. of pages 206
Series Transits: Literature, Thought
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Transits: Literature, Thought
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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