The body in Swift and Defoe / Carol Houlihan Flynn.
Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945-| Call Number | 820.9/36/09033 |
| Author | Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945- author. |
| Title | The body in Swift and Defoe / Carol Houlihan Flynn. The Body in Swift & Defoe |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (vii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 5 |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Summary | This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality, and deals with issues such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology and the fear of contagion. Swift and Defoe are seen as writers confronting the essentially modern problem of what it is to be human in a rapidly developing consumer economy, where individual bodies, beset by poverty and disease, are felt to be threatened by the enveloping masses of urban crowds. In an eclectic synthesis of recent approaches, Carol Flynn works into her study the insights provided by biographical and psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism and social history, studies of eighteenth-century philosophy, and feminist readings. Her challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society, as it is revealed in its literature. |
| Subject | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Knowledge Anatomy. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Knowledge Anatomy. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Human body in literature. SEX IN LITERATURE. |
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| Summary | This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality, and deals with issues such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology and the fear of contagion. Swift and Defoe are seen as writers confronting the essentially modern problem of what it is to be human in a rapidly developing consumer economy, where individual bodies, beset by poverty and disease, are felt to be threatened by the enveloping masses of urban crowds. In an eclectic synthesis of recent approaches, Carol Flynn works into her study the insights provided by biographical and psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism and social history, studies of eighteenth-century philosophy, and feminist readings. Her challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society, as it is revealed in its literature. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Subject | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Knowledge Anatomy. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Knowledge Anatomy. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Human body in literature. SEX IN LITERATURE. |
| Multimedia |