"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...

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Publicado en:	Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 559 - 579
Autor principal:	Alves, Kathleen
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Toronto Press Summer2020
Materias:	Hysteria Mediation Self-evidence (Logic) Economic policy Pathology
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