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Publisher Summary 1
Carol Flynn's 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.
Publisher Summary 2
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.
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Cover 1
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
List of abbreviations 10
Introduction \ 11
1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year 18
The providence tradition 23
In nullius verbal the scientific dilemma 26
Optics: dull organs writ large 27
The urban body in the City of the Dead 29
Mortal warfare 34
Complicated distress 39
Spectacular suffering 43
Spectacular suffering 45
2 The burthen in the belly 47
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Nature is content with little 56
The devouring womb 60
The Persian Letters 63
3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems 71
The door of inclination 75
\ 80
The dreadful scene 86
4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies 98
Dieting desire 104
Nursery tales 110
The god has made us April Fools 115
5 The ladies: d\u2014ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts 120
Esther Vanhomrigh 126
Esther Johnson 130
Nauti nurse 131
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6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor 142
\ 144
The three men of Wapping 153
7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift 159
My savage: Defoe orders his fictional world 162
Nature is easily satisfied: Swift's reluctant cannibalism 170
The poor . . . we want them not 174
Harmless eyes 177
8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors 187
For feeling hath no fellow 191
The perils of articulation 197
The abusive muse 205
Textual self-extension 208
Clear solutions 212
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\ 229
Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose 222
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Index 235
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
List of abbreviations 10
Introduction \ 11
1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year 18
The providence tradition 23
In nullius verbal the scientific dilemma 26
Optics: dull organs writ large 27
The urban body in the City of the Dead 29
Mortal warfare 34
Complicated distress 39
Spectacular suffering 43
Spectacular suffering 45
2 The burthen in the belly 47
\ 52
Nature is content with little 56
The devouring womb 60
The Persian Letters 63
3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems 71
The door of inclination 75
\ 80
The dreadful scene 86
4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies 98
Dieting desire 104
Nursery tales 110
The god has made us April Fools 115
5 The ladies: d\u2014ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts 120
Esther Vanhomrigh 126
Esther Johnson 130
Nauti nurse 131
\ 133
6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor 142
\ 144
The three men of Wapping 153
7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift 159
My savage: Defoe orders his fictional world 162
Nature is easily satisfied: Swift's reluctant cannibalism 170
The poor . . . we want them not 174
Harmless eyes 177
8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors 187
For feeling hath no fellow 191
The perils of articulation 197
The abusive muse 205
Textual self-extension 208
Clear solutions 212
\ 216
\ 229
Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose 222
\ 226
Index 235
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