This extended study of the treatment of the physical, material nature of the human body in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality. The book takes up a wide range of issues relating to the body such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology, and the fear of contagion. In an eclectic synthesis of recent critical approaches, Professor Flynn draws insight from biographical and psychoanalytic criticism as well as social history. Application of feminist theory offers an original and challenging discussion of renditions of female sexuality in both Defoe and Swift.
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"...Flynn is at her very best as cultural and literary critic: she enters eighteenth-century conflicts and shows us how they provide a social context for a wide body of literary and cultural texts." Carol Barash, Eighteenth-Century Studies
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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body in eighteenth-century England, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality, and deals with issues such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology, and the fear of contagion.
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conjugal lewdness, dull organs, speaking sight, complicated distress, physical economy, providential patterns, plague pit, plague year, useless mouths, dreadful scene, sexual economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jonathan Swift, Due Preparations, Esther Johnson, Moll Flanders, Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels, Some Thoughts, Colonel Jack, Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Mother Midnight, New Haven, Robinson Crusoe, Roy Porter, The English Poor, English Malady, Maximillian Novak, Michael Hunter, Samuel Johnson, Bernard Mandeville, Dead Carts, Eighteenth-Century Britain, Esther Vanhomrigh, John Woodward New!
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conjugal lewdness, dull organs, speaking sight, complicated distress, physical economy, providential patterns, plague pit, plague year, useless mouths, dreadful scene, sexual economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jonathan Swift, Due Preparations, Esther Johnson, Moll Flanders, Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels, Some Thoughts, Colonel Jack, Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Mother Midnight, New Haven, Robinson Crusoe, Roy Porter, The English Poor, English Malady, Maximillian Novak, Michael Hunter, Samuel Johnson, Bernard Mandeville, Dead Carts, Eighteenth-Century Britain, Esther Vanhomrigh, John Woodward New!
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- A Journal of the Plague Year (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe on 7 pages
- A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe on 7 pages
- A Modest Proposal and Other Satires (Konemann Classics) by Jonathan Swift on 7 pages
- Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions) by Daniel Defoe on 6 pages
- Complete Poems (Penguin English Poets) by Jonathan Swift on 5 pages
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- Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory) by Anita Guerrini in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment by Professor Daniel Cottom PhD in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Barbara M. Benedict in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Tom Keymer in Front Matter
- The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London by Cynthia Wall in Back Matter
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