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Paperback The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century Book

ISBN: 0521016428

ISBN13: 9780521016421

The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in England and its empire during the eighteenth century. Focusing especially on women's writing, Nussbaum analyzes it from the Restoration to abolition by considering a range of anomalies (defects, disease, and disability) as they intermingle with ideas of femininity, masculinity, and race to define normalcy. Incorporating writings by Burney, Johnson, Sterne, Equiano...

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