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050 00 $aPR3698.B57$bD68 1995
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100 1 $aDouglas, Aileen,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89009909
245 10 $aUneasy sensations :$bSmollett and the body /$cAileen Douglas.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9510
300 $axxx, 201 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Body in Eighteenth-Century Narrative --$gCh. 2.$t"Matter out of Place": Travels through France and Italy --$gCh. 3.$t"Surrounded with Bodies": Social Experience in Roderick Random --$gCh. 4.$tThe Troubled Female Body: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle --$gCh. 5.$t"The Riggers of Authority": Fathom and Greaves --$gCh. 6.$tThe Politics of Matter: The History and Adventures of an Atom --$gCh. 7.$t"The Frolick May Go Round": Bodies as Signs in Humphry Clinker.
520 $aTobias Smollett, a key figure in the British tradition of comic fiction, has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which teems with scatological images and graphic depictions of bodily injury and disintegration. Challenging scholars who have dismissed Smollett's preoccupation with the body as simply crude, Uneasy Sensations clarifies his sophisticated ideas about human physicality and his contribution to eighteenth-century literature.
520 8 $aAileen Douglas draws on feminist and other new theoretical perspectives to reassess Smollett's entire body of fiction as well as his classic work of nonfiction, Travels through France and Italy. Like many writers of his time, Douglas argues, Smollett was interested in the body and in how accurately it reflects internal disposition. But Smollett's special contribution to the eighteenth-century novel is his emphasis on sentience, the sensations of the physical body.
520 8 $aLooking at such works as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Douglas explores the ways Smollett uses representations of sentience especially torment and pain - in his critique of the social and political order.
520 8 $aTrained in medicine, Smollett was alert to the ways in which the discourses of medicine, philosophy, and law construct the body as an object of knowledge, and yet his work always returns to the physical world of the body and its feelings. Smollett reminds us, as Douglas aptly puts it, that "if you prick a socially constructed body, it still bleeds.".
520 8 $aUneasy Sensations reveals Smollett as a writer from whom contemporary readers can learn much about the body's relation to politics and society. Shedding new light on classic works, it is an important contribution to an understanding of eighteenth-century British-literature.
600 10 $aSmollett, T.$q(Tobias),$d1721-1771$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015234
600 10 $aSmollett, T.$q(Tobias),$d1721-1771$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aMedicine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083064
650 0 $aAnatomy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004835
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106899
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aMedicine in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083194
650 0 $aAnatomy in literature.
852 00 $bglx$hPR3698.B57$iD68 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPR3698.B57$iD68 1995