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The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Carol Houlihan Flynn 0521021650 9780521021654
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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.

The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

Author: Carol Houlihan Flynn

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 240

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2005-11-03


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