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Body Language : Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel.
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| 著者・編者 | Alves, Kathleen Tamayo, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| 出版社 | (Bucknell University Press,U.S., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2025 |
| ページ数 | 200 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-46471＞ |
解説
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.