| The Body in Swift and Defoe Revised Edition Contributor(s): Flynn, Carol Houlihan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521021650 ISBN-13: 9780521021654 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 820.936 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |