{"product_id":"the-limits-of-the-human-fictions-of-anomaly-race-and-gender-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-hardback-9780521811675","title":"The Limits of the Human; Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardback) 9780521811675","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Limits of the Human\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book, Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in eighteenth-century English literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFelicity A. Nussbaum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521811675, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages, 23 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 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\"The moral impetus and humane sensibility of The Limits of the Human are evident . . .\"   Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. With a special focus on women's writing, Nussbaum analyzes canonical and lesser-known novels and plays from the Restoration to abolition. She considers a range of anomalies (defects, disease, and disability) as they intermingle with ideas of femininity, masculinity, and race to define 'normalcy' as national identity. Incorporating writings by Behn, Burney, and the Bluestockings, as well as Southerne, Shaftesbury, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano, Nussbaum treats a range of disabilities - being mute, blind, lame - and physical oddities such as eunuchism and giantism as they are inflected by emerging notions of a racial femininity and masculinity. She shows that these corporeal features, perceived as aberrant and extraordinary, combine in the popular imagination to reveal a repertory of differences located between the extremes of splendid and horrid novelty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: monstrous tales\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Anomaly and Gender: 1. Fictions of defect: Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Effeminacy and femininity: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Montagu, and Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 3. Odd women, mangled men: the bluestockings and Sterne\u003cbr\u003e 4. Scarred women: Frances Burney and smallpox\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Race and Gender: 5. Racial femininity: 'Our British Fair'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Black women: why Imoinda turns white\u003cbr\u003e 7. Black men: Equiano, Sancho, and being a man\u003cbr\u003e 8. Black parts: racial counterfeit on stage\u003cbr\u003e Coda: between races.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265137332504,"sku":"9780521811675","price":78.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521811675i.jpg?v=1692019813","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-limits-of-the-human-fictions-of-anomaly-race-and-gender-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-hardback-9780521811675","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}