{"product_id":"a-funny-thing-eighteenth-century-literature-undisciplined-hardback-9781009486231","title":"A Funny Thing; Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined (Hardback) 9781009486231","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Funny Thing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eZuroski's 'funny eighteenth century' upends disciplinary norms binding liberal selfhood to extractive capitalism since early imperialism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEugenia Zuroski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009486231, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e303 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A Funny Thing is a queer academic monograph that takes its reader on a journey from Augustan satire to RuPaul's Drag Race via flying penises and wig reveals. It is also a deeply impressive book. It is learned, analytically astute, thrillingly deft and well (sometimes hilariously) written. It is also a book that imprints upon the reader's mind a familiar yet largely unexplored eighteenth-century culture full of political and aesthetic energies that are not easily assimilable within conventional literary-historical paradigms. I have never read anything like A Funny Thing before, but I know I want to read it again and I want my colleagues and students to do the same.' Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies, University of York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEighteenth-century literature is weirder than we realize. A Funny Thing invites readers to be taken by its oddities, its silliness, and its absurdities – both because reading this way is fun, and because this challenges colonialism's disciplinary epistemes of propriety that have consistently bound liberal selfhood to extractive capitalism. Focusing on three aesthetic modes largely unnamed in existing studies of the period's literature – the anamorphic, the ludic, and the orificial – this book offers fresh readings of work by Haywood, Walpole, Bentley, and Burney that point to unexpected legacies from the so-called Age of Reason. This book is for any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction, the period's queer sense of humour, and how writing and art of the time challenge colonial reality. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Anamorphic: 1. Carried Away\u003cbr\u003e 2. Affective Risks\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Fascinum\u003cbr\u003e 4. Anamorphic Vision\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Reading Medusa\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sapphic Study\u003cbr\u003e 7. An Interlude\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Ludic: 8. Mapping the Mundus Ludibundus\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Art of Sinking\u003cbr\u003e 10. This Giddy Bark\u003cbr\u003e 11. Animal Spirits\u003cbr\u003e 12. Visceral Quickenings\u003cbr\u003e 13. Flesh and Blood at Sea\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Cat-Arion\u003cbr\u003e 15. Dreaming Together\u003cbr\u003e 16. Twickenham's Depths\u003cbr\u003e 17. An Opening\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Orificial: 16. Perverting the Novel\u003cbr\u003e 17. I Blush for My Folly!\u003cbr\u003e 18. Evelina's Orifice\u003cbr\u003e 19. A Monstrous Good Stare\u003cbr\u003e 20. Enjoying His Mortification\u003cbr\u003e 21. Tickling, or the Unbearable\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Novel's Queerer Theories\u003cbr\u003e 23. Undoing Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e 24. Grinning and Sweating\u003cbr\u003e 25. 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