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Jason S Farr, Jason S. Farr
Novel Bodies - Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
English · Paperback / Softback
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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
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
About the author
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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