Funny Thing - Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

"For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial reality, this book is equally delightful and disruptive."--

List of contents

Part I. The Anamorphic: 1. Carried Away; 2. Affective Risks; 3. The Fascinum; 4. Anamorphic Vision; 5. The Reading Medusa; 6. Sapphic Study; 7. An Interlude; Part II. The Ludic: 8. Mapping the Mundus Ludibundus; 9. The Art of Sinking; 10. This Giddy Bark; 11. Animal Spirits; 12. Visceral Quickenings; 13. Flesh and Blood at Sea; 14. The Cat-Arion; 15. Dreaming Together; 16. Twickenham's Depths; 17. An Opening; Part III. The Orificial: 16. Perverting the Novel; 17. I Blush for My Folly!; 18. Evelina's Orifice; 19. A Monstrous Good Stare; 20. Enjoying His Mortification; 21. Tickling, or the Unbearable; 22. The Novel's Queerer Theories; 23. Undoing Whiteness; 24. Grinning and Sweating; 25. Enjoying His Mortification (Wig Reveal Version).

About the author

Eugenia Zuroski is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Ontario. She is the author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism (2013) and Editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She has also published two chapbooks of poetry, Kintail Beach (2022) and Hovering, Seen (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Eugenia Zuroski, Eugenia (Mcmaster University Zuroski
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009486231
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948623-1
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics