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Body Language
- Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel
Engelsk
Bogcover for Body Language af Kathleen Tamayo Alves, 9781684485703
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781684485703
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1684485703
Udg. Dato:
11 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 15,6
Serie:
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Oplagsdato:
11 nov 2025
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Body Language

- Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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Body Language examines the complex intersections of British eighteenth-century comic fiction and medical discourse. By engaging medical writings of renowned and widely-read physicians of the Enlightenment such as John Freind, Thomas Sydenham, Albrecht von Haller, John Whytt, and William Cullen, with novels of humor by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, and Charlotte Lennox, Alves explains how medicine shaped comic language by dramatizing female-specific phenomena like menstruation, hysteria, nervous disorders, and pregnancy.In these novels, the medical belief that women are incapable of bodily self-regulation becomes an imperative for policing women’s bodies and highlights the enduring shortcomings of patriarchal systems. Ultimately, these comic representations offer a counternarrative of women’s bodies, agency, and selfhood, exposing masculine anxieties about the effectiveness of marriage to regulate women’s sexuality. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781684485703
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1684485703
Udg. Dato:
11 nov 2025
Størrelse i cm:
23,5 x 15,6
Serie:
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Oplagsdato:
11 nov 2025
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