"Whither doth this violent Passion hurry us?": Hysterical Language and Desiring Women in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
This article examines how Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742) works within amatory and comic modes, and engages with eighteenth-century medical discourses of hysteria and the nerves. Lady Booby's emotions, fashioned in the amatory mode, illustrate how women's bodies were culturally overdetermined...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 559 - 579 |
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