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This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. It examines the role that literary invention (with its rhetorical and linguistic strategies) plays in expressing and exploring the problems of physicality, and deals with issues such as sexuality, cannibalism, scatology and the fear of contagion. Swift and Defoe are seen as writers confronting the essentially modern problem of what it is to be human in a rapidly developing consumer economy, where individual bodies, beset by poverty and disease, are felt to be threatened by the enveloping masses of urban crowds. In an eclectic synthesis of recent approaches, Carol Flynn works into her study the insights provided by biographical and psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism and social history, studies of eighteenth-century philosophy, and feminist readings. Her 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.

Body [Human ] in literature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Human body in literature --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in de literatuur --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sex in literature --- Sexe dans la littérature --- Body, Human, in literature --- English literature --- -Sex in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- Defoe, Daniel --- -Swift, Jonathan --- スウィフト --- Foe, Daniel de --- Knowledge --- -Anatomy --- -Anatomy. --- Human body in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Swift, Jonathan --- di Marco, Corolini --- Swift, Dean --- Gulliver, Lemuel --- de Foë, Daniel --- Defoe, Daniel, --- Swift, Jonathan, --- Defoë, Daniel --- Anatomy. --- 18th century --- Criticism and interpretation --- English literature - 18th century - History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature. --- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 - Criticism and interpretation. --- De Fo, Daniel', --- De Foe, Daniel, --- Defo, Daniel, --- Defo, Danielo, --- Defo, Daniyel, --- English gentleman, --- Gabriel John, --- Gentleman, --- John, Gabriel, --- L. M., --- Lay-hand in the country, --- Lover of old England, --- Lover of truth, --- Merchant, --- Moreton, Andrew, --- Даниель Дефо, --- דעפא, דאניעל --- דפו, דניאל --- דפו, דניאל, --- דיפו, דניאל --- דיפו, דניאל, --- דיפואה, --- Johnson, Charles, --- Fefoe, Daniel --- De Fo, Daniel' --- De Foe, Daniel --- Defo, Daniel --- Defo, Danielo --- Defo, Daniyel --- English gentleman --- Gabriel John --- Gentleman --- John, Gabriel --- L. M. --- Lay-hand in the country --- Lover of old England --- Lover of truth --- Merchant --- Moreton, Andrew --- Даниель Дефо --- Johnson, Charle, --- Svift, Dzhonatan, --- Du Baudrier, --- Wagstaff, Simon, --- Fribble, Timothy, --- Baudrier, --- Drapier, M. B., --- Swift, J. --- Author of The conduct of the allies, --- Conduct of the allies, Author of the, --- Philomath, T. N., --- T. N., --- N., T., --- TN, --- Swift, --- Hope, Thomas, --- A. B., --- B., A., --- Author of The short view of the state of Ireland, --- Short view of the state of Ireland, Author of the, --- Author of Gulliver's travels, --- Gulliver's travels, Author of, --- S --- -t, --- D--n S --- -t --- Sṿifṭ, Yonatan, --- Misosarum, Gregory, --- Ssu-wei-fo-tʻe, Kʻuang-sheng, --- Fizle, Obadiah, --- Soyipht, Tzonathan, --- Soyipht, Iōnathan, --- Swift, Jonatán, --- Свифт, Джонатан, --- סבפט, יונתן, --- סוויפט, יאנאטהאן, --- סויפט, יונתן, --- סװיפט, יאנאטהאן, --- סװיפט, י., --- Bickerstaff, Isaac, --- Sviphṭa, Jonāthana, --- M., Stephen, --- Author of A tale of a tub, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature