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Novel Bodies TRANSITS: LIT ER A TURE, THOUGHT & CULTURE 1650 – 1850 Series Editors Greg Clingham, Bucknell University Kathryn Parker, University of Wisconsin— La Crosse Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida Transits is a series of scholarly monographs and edited volumes publishing beautiful and surprising work. Without ideological bias the series seeks transformative readings of the literary, artistic, cultural, and historical interconnections between Britain, Eu rope, the Far East, Oceania, and the Amer i cas during the years 1650 and 1850, and as their implications extend down to the pre sent time. In addition to lit er a ture, art, and history, such “global” per- spectives might entail considerations of time, space, nature, economics, politics, environment, gender, sex, race, bodies, and material culture, and might necessitate the development of new modes of critical imagination. At the same time, the series welcomes considerations of the local and the national, for original new work on par tic u lar writers and readers in par tic u lar places in time continues to be foundational to the discipline. Since 2011, sixty- five Transits titles have been published or are in production. Recent Titles in the Series Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Lit er a ture, 1789–1886 Lenora Warren Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle Anthony W. Lee, ed. The Global Words worth: Romanticism Out of Place Katherine Bergren Cultivating Peace: The Virgilian Georgic in En glish, 1650–1750 Melissa Schoenberger Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth- Century En glish Lit er a ture Samara Anne Cahill Jane Austen and Comedy Erin M. Goss, ed. The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth- Century Britain Amelia Dale For a full list of Transits titles go to https:// www . bucknell . edu / script / upress / series . asp ? id = 33 TRANSITS Novel Bodies DISABILITY AND SEXUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY BRITISH LIT ERA T URE JASON S. FARR LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Number: 2019012863 A British Cataloging- in- Publication rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2019 by Jason S. Farr All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Bucknell University Press, Hildreth- Mirza Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837-2005. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. www . bucknell . edu / UniversityPress Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca For Alan CONTENTS Introduction: Disability and the Literary History of Sexuality 1 1 Deaf Education and Queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720–1732) 36 2 The Reforming Bodies of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott’s Fiction (1754–1766) 71 3 Chronic Illness, Medicine, and the Healthy Marriages of Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) 103 4 Gendered Disfigurement and Queer Ocular Relations in Frances Burney’s Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) 131 Coda: Hypochondria and the Implausibility of Heterosexual Romance in Jane Austen’s Sanditon (1817) 164 Acknowl edgments 171 Bibliography 175 Index 185 [ vii ] Novel Bodies
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