The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)

Literature & Fiction

Flynn, Carol Houlihan

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

This extended study of the treatment of the physical, material nature of the human body in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality. The book takes up a wide range of issues relating to the body such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology, and the fear of contagion. In an eclectic synthesis of recent critical approaches, Professor Flynn draws insight from biographical and psychoanalytic criticism as well as social history. Application of feminist theory offers an original and challenging discussion of renditions of female sexuality in both Defoe and Swift.

The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 5)

Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters (Princeton Legacy Library)

History & Criticism

Princeton

Princeton University Press

Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination.
Originally published in 1982.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Animals, a Memoir is an unsentimental exploration of the terrible burden of meaning and emotion carried by the animals in the author's life - the forbidden childhood pet, the disastrous attempt at pig farming as her high-powered marriage fell apart, the deaf Akita ("dog of the divorce"), the violent cat acting out the family violence, and Ben, the beautiful, adored Border Collie who spirals into madness.

The Animals

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Saddle Road Press

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