Isbn: 9780226160511 - uneasy sensations: smollett and the body (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket.

Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered terracotta cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. xxx + 201 (no inscriptions).

Zustand: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0226160513. …

8vo. xxx, 201, [1] pp. Index. Orange black-printed cloth, dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0226160513 "The eighteenth-century comic novelist Tobias Smollett has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which is full of scatological images and graphic depictions of bodily injury and disintegration. Aileen Douglas draws on feminist and other new theoretical perspectives to reassess Smollett's entire body of fiction as well as his classic 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, or the sensations of the physical body. Looking at such works as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, and The History and Adventures of an Atom, Douglas explores the ways Smollett uses representations of sentienceâ"especially torment and painâ"in his critique of the social and political order. Trained in medicine, Smollett was especially alert to the ways in which the discourses of medicine, philosophy, and law construct (as we would put it now) the body as an object of knowledge, and yet his work always returns to the importance of 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.'" [University of Chicago Press].…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition in dust wrapper, ink gift inscription from the author inside. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 232 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 1995. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. pp. 232.

Zustand: New. In English.