Kathleen Tamayo Alves

Body Language

Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations of “leaky” female physical, psychological, and emotional embodiment, novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, and Charlotte Lennox engage political and social anxieties caused by women’s sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781684485710
• ISBN-10: 1684485711
• Artikelnr.: 73397652

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN TAMAYO ALVES is an associate professor of English at Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York. Her research centers on eighteenth-century literature and culture, medicine, and literary history, and she has recently published in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Comic Representations of
Women  
1. Leaky Writings and Leaky Bodies in Henry Fielding’s Shamela (1741) and
Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker (1771)
2. Hysterical Language and Desiring Women in Henry Fielding’s Joseph
Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749)
3. The Maternal Body and Obstetric Authority in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram
Shandy (1759) and Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle (1751)
4. Romantic (Mis)Readings and Nervous Sympathy in Charlotte Lennox’s The
Female Quixote (1752)
Coda: Surgical Violence as a Tool of Masculine Dominance in Poor Things
(2023)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index