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The Body in Swift and Defoe

The Body in Swift and Defoe

Flynn, Carol Houlihan
Erskine-Hill, Howard
Richetti, John J.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a, Book 5

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521021650
ISBN13: 9780521021654
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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