ACLS Humanities E-Book: The body in Swift and Defoe

The body in Swift and Defoe

Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945-

Year: c1990.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction "The Dearness of things": the body as matter for text

1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year

2 The burthen in the belly

3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems

4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies

5 The ladies: d--ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts

6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor

7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift

8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors

Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose

Index

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Title:

The body in Swift and Defoe : Carol Houlihan Flynn.

Author:

Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945-

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The body in Swift and Defoe : Carol Houlihan Flynn.
Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945-
Cambridge [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, c1990.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07692

Subject Headings:

• Swift, Jonathan, -- 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Defoe, Daniel, -- 1661?-1731 -- Criticism and interpretation
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Human body in literature
• Sex in literature

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