Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction “The Dearness of things”: the body as matter for text
- 1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year
- 2 The burthen in the belly
- 3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems
- 4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies
- 5 The ladies: d—ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts
- 6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor
- 7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift
- 8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors
- Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction “The Dearness of things”: the body as matter for text
- 1 Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year
- 2 The burthen in the belly
- 3 Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems
- 4 Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies
- 5 The ladies: d—ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts
- 6 Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor
- 7 Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift
- 8 Vital parts: Swift's necessary metaphors
- Afterword Suppose me dead; and then suppose
- Index
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- The Body in Swift and Defoe , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990