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

Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human differences 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, and others, she covers a range of disabilities altered by emerging concepts of racial femininity and masculinity.

Author: Felicity A. Nussbaum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/23/2003
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780521811675

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 909

About the Author
Nussbaum, Felicity A.: - Felicity Nussbaum is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives (1995).

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