The limits of the human fictions of anomaly, race, and gender in the long eighteenth century
"Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representation of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. With a special focus on women's writing, she analyzes canonical and lesser-known novels and plays from the Restoration to abolition. She consid...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2003
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schlagworte: |
Geschichte 1700-1800
> Engels
> Individuele verschillen
> Letterkunde
> Rassen (mens)
> Sekserol
> Englisch
> Geschichte
> Literatur
> Abnormalities, Human, in literature
> Difference (Psychology) in literature
> English literature
> History and criticism
> Gender identity in literature
> Human beings in literature
> Race in literature
> Sex role in literature
> Women and literature
> History
> Rasse
> Geschlecht
> Anomalie
> Großbritannien
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representation of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. With a special focus on women's writing, she analyzes canonical and lesser-known novels and plays from the Restoration to abolition. She considers a range of anomalies (defects, disease, and disability) as they intermingle with ideas of a racial femininity and masculinity to define "normalcy" as national identity. Incorporating writings by Behn, Burney, and the Bluestockings - as well as Southerne, Shaftesbury, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano - Nussbaum treats a range of disabilities - being mute, blind, lame - and physical oddities such as eunuchism and giantism. She shows that these corporeal features, perceived as aberrant and extraordinary, combine in the popular imagination to reveal a repertory of differences located between the extremes of splendid and horrid novelty."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 336 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0521811678 0-521-81167-8 0521016428 0-521-01642-8 |