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The body in Swift and Defoe

Carol Houlihan Flynn
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vi)
  • List of abbreviations (page viii)
  • Introduction "The Dearness of things": the body as matter for text (page 1)
  • 1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year (page 8)
  • 2 The burthen in the belly (page 37)
  • 3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems (page 61)
  • 4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies (page 88)
  • 5 The ladies: d--ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts (page 110)
  • 6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor (page 132)
  • 7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift (page 149)
  • 8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors (page 177)
  • Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose (page 212)
  • Index (page 225)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ECS 27.2 (Winter 1993-1994): 326-328 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2739396
MP 90.3 (Feb. 1993): 439-442 http://www.jstor.org/stable/438658
RES 44.173 (Feb. 1993): 109-110 http://www.jstor.org/stable/518462
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Published: c1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521021654 (paper)
  • 9781139085878 (ebook)
  • 9780521382687 (hardcover)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Subject
  • Literature
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