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Availability:In StockContributor:Kathleen Tamayo AlvesSeries:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850Publish date:11/11/2025Pages:214
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bucknell University PressISBN-13:9781684485703ISBN-10:1684485703UPC:9781684485703Book Category:Literary Criticism, MedicalBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:18th Century, WomenWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC8SQGSNFG
Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel
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...
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bucknell University PressISBN-13:9781684485703ISBN-10:1684485703UPC:9781684485703Book Category:Literary Criticism, MedicalBook Subcategory:Modern, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:18th Century, WomenWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC8SQGSNFG
KATHLEEN TAMAYO ALVES is an associate professor of English at Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York. Her research centers on eighteenth-century literature and culture, medicine, and literary history, and she has recently published in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and...
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
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