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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought ; v. 5 |
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Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ""The Dearness of things"": the body as matter for tex; 1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year ; The providence tradition; In nullius verbal the scientific dilemma; Optics: dull organs writ large; The urban body in the City of the Dead; Mortal warfare; Complicated distress; Spectacular suffering; Spectacular suffering; 2 The burthen in the belly |
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""The thing itself"": lewdness as an inevitable stateNature is content with little; The devouring womb; The Persian Letters; 3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems ; The door of inclination; ""The great and main Difficulty""; The dreadful scene; 4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies ; Dieting desire; Nursery tales; The god has made us April Fools; 5 The ladies: d-ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts ; Esther Vanhomrigh |
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Esther JohnsonNauti nurse; ""A subject fit for me""; 6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor ; ""A Little Room""; The three men of Wapping; 7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift ; My savage: Defoe orders his fictional world; Nature is easily satisfied: Swift's reluctant cannibalism; The poor ... we want them not; Harmless eyes; 8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors ; For feeling hath no fellow |
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The perils of articulationThe abusive muse; Textual self-extension; Clear solutions; ""This mingled mass of things""; ""Sacred relicks of their posterity""; Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose ; ""I ask but for an inch at most""; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Erskine-Hill, Howard.
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Richetti, John
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| ISBN |
0511553463 |
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9780511553462 |
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