Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature
Record details
- ISBN: 9781684481118
- ISBN: 1684481112
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
remote - Publisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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). |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Source of Description Note: | Electronic version record. |
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Subject: | People with disabilities Sex in literature People with disabilities in literature English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism |
Genre: | Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |