Name: Body Language. Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel
SKU: 64765695
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Author: Kathleen Tamayo Alves
ISBN: 9781684485703

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Body Language. Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Bucknell University Press,U.S.

Autor

Kathleen Tamayo Alves

Colección

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Año

2025

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.5x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9781684485703

Body Language. Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel

Kathleen Tamayo Alves (Autor) · Bucknell University Press,U.S. · Tapa Blanda

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Body Language examines the complex intersections of British eighteenth-century comic fiction and medical discourse. By engaging medical writings of renowned and widely-read physicians of the Enlightenment such as John Freind, Thomas Sydenham, Albrecht von Haller, John Whytt, and William Cullen, with novels of humor by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, and Charlotte Lennox, Alves explains how medicine shaped comic language by dramatizing female-specific phenomena like menstruation, hysteria, nervous disorders, and pregnancy.In these novels, the medical belief that women are incapable of bodily self-regulation becomes an imperative for policing women’s bodies and highlights the enduring shortcomings of patriarchal systems. Ultimately, these comic representations offer a counternarrative of women’s bodies, agency, and selfhood, exposing masculine anxieties about the effectiveness of marriage to regulate women’s sexuality. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.