Felicity A. Nussbaum, Nussbaum Felicity a.

The Limits of the Human

Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in eighteenth-century English literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780521811675
• ISBN-10: 0521811678
• Artikelnr.: 29338223

Autorenporträt

Felicity Nussbaum is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: monstrous tales
Part I. Anomaly and Gender: 1. Fictions of defect: Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood
2. Effeminacy and femininity: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Montagu, and Johnson
3. Odd women, mangled men: the bluestockings and Sterne
4. Scarred women: Frances Burney and smallpox
Part II. Race and Gender: 5. Racial femininity: 'Our British Fair'
6. Black women: why Imoinda turns white
7. Black men: Equiano, Sancho, and being a man
8. Black parts: racial counterfeit on stage
Coda: between races.