Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the EnlightenmentLaura Jean Rosenthal, Mita Choudhury The essays demonstrate how profoundly eighteenth-century formulations of gender, race, class, and sexuality have, through their challenges to a less empirical, rational, and universalizing past, set the terms for debates in the centuries that followed. They explore a wide range of texts, from Georgic poetry to crime stories, from illness narratives to travel journals, from theatrical performances to medical discourse, and from political treatises to the novel."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Eroticism Performance and Privacy from Pepys to the Spectator | 45 |
Sexual Monstrosity and the Suffering of Poor Children in the Brownrigg Murder Case | 66 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu the Smallpox Inoculation and the Concept of Enlightenment | 85 |
Narratives of Illness Histories of Presence 1812 1993 | 110 |
Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the Regeneration of the Jews | 132 |
Galland Burton and the Arabian Nights | 151 |
Matthew Lewiss Journal of a West India Proprietor | 170 |
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