Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature /
Farr, Jason S., 1978-
Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr. - 1 online resource. - Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes 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. In imagining the lived experience of disability as analogous to--and as informed by--queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured in Novel Bodies expose emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy. Further, Farr argues that they use intersections of disability and queerness to stage an array of contemporaneous debates covering topics as wide-ranging as education, feminism, domesticity, medicine, and plantation life. In his close attention to the fiction of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Maria Edgeworth, and Frances Burney, Farr demonstrates that disabled and queer characters inhabit strict social orders in unconventional ways, and thus opened up new avenues of expression for readers from the eighteenth century forward. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
In English.
1684481112 9781684481118 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (epub) 1684481090 9781684481095
10.36019/9781684481118. doi
22573/ctv1nh5gks JSTOR
2019980779
1700-1799
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
People with disabilities in literature.
Sex in literature.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Personnes handicapées.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
People with disabilities.
English fiction.
People with disabilities in literature.
Sex in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR858.P425
828/.7093561
WZ 330
Novel bodies : disability and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Jason S. Farr. - 1 online resource. - Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes 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. In imagining the lived experience of disability as analogous to--and as informed by--queer genders and sexualities, the authors featured in Novel Bodies expose emerging ideas of able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as interconnected systems that sustain dominant models of courtship, reproduction, and degeneracy. Further, Farr argues that they use intersections of disability and queerness to stage an array of contemporaneous debates covering topics as wide-ranging as education, feminism, domesticity, medicine, and plantation life. In his close attention to the fiction of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Maria Edgeworth, and Frances Burney, Farr demonstrates that disabled and queer characters inhabit strict social orders in unconventional ways, and thus opened up new avenues of expression for readers from the eighteenth century forward. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
In English.
1684481112 9781684481118 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (epub) 1684481090 9781684481095
10.36019/9781684481118. doi
22573/ctv1nh5gks JSTOR
2019980779
1700-1799
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
People with disabilities in literature.
Sex in literature.
People with disabilities.
Disabled Persons
Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Personnes handicapées.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
People with disabilities.
English fiction.
People with disabilities in literature.
Sex in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR858.P425
828/.7093561
WZ 330