Introduction: disability and the literary history of sexuality. Deaf education and queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732) -- The reforming bodies of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott's fiction (1754-66) -- Chronic illness, medicine, and the healthy marriages of Tobias Smollett's The expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) -- Gendered disfigurement and queer ocular relations in Frances Burney's Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801) -- Coda: hypochondria and the implausibility of heterosexual romance in Jane Austen's Sanditon (1807).
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Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
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