{"product_id":"body-language-medicine-and-the-eighteenth-century-comic-novel-9781684485710","title":"Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complex intersections of British eighteenth-century comic fiction and medical discourse. By engaging medical writings of renowned and widely-read physicians of the Enlightenment such as John Freind, Thomas Sydenham, Albrecht von Haller, John Whytt, and William Cullen, with novels of humor by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, and Charlotte Lennox, Alves explains how medicine shaped comic language by dramatizing female-specific phenomena like menstruation, hysteria, nervous disorders, and pregnancy. In these novels, the medical belief that women are incapable of bodily self-regulation becomes an imperative for policing women's bodies and highlights the enduring shortcomings of patriarchal systems. Ultimately, these comic representations offer a counternarrative of women's bodies, agency, and selfhood, exposing masculine anxieties about the effectiveness of marriage to regulate women's sexuality. \u003c\/p\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKATHLEEN TAMAYO ALVES is an associate professor of English at Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York. Her research centers on eighteenth-century literature and culture, medicine, and literary history, and she has recently published in \u003ci\u003eStudies in Eighteenth-Century Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Eighteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Studies, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705106759954,"sku":"9781684485710","price":156.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d4807eb-d377-44bb-8dfd-fe1faba31370.jpg?v=1762340876","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/body-language-medicine-and-the-eighteenth-century-comic-novel-9781684485710","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}