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Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature

Title
Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr.
Author
Farr, Jason S., 1978-
Publication
  • Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University, University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
vii, 194 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
Uniform Title
Transits (Bucknell University)
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
  • People with disabilities in literature
  • Sex in literature
  • Disabilities in literature
  • English fiction > Themes, motives
  • English fiction > Women authors
  • Homosexuality in literature
  • Mind and body in literature
  • Ugliness in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.
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).
Call Number
JFE 20-1127
ISBN
  • 9781684481088
  • 1684481082
  • 9781684481071
  • 1684481074
LCCN
2019012863
OCLC
1057375092
Author
Farr, Jason S., 1978- author.
Title
Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr.
Publisher
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University, University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
Transits (Bucknell University)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1799
Other Form:
Online version: Farr, Jason S., 1978- author. Novel bodies. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University, 2019. 9781684481095 (DLC) 2019980779
Research Call Number
JFE 20-1127
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