Carol Houlihan Flynn

The Body in Swift and Defoe

Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society, as it is revealed in its literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521382687
• ISBN-10: 0521382688
• Artikelnr.: 21596628

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: literary remains: the body as matter for text
1. Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year
2. The burthen in the belly
3. Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems
4. Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies
5. The ladies: d--ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts
6. Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor
7. Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift
Afterword: ... suppose me dead
and then suppose ...
Notes.