Article: Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.(Book Review)

Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. By JULIET MCMASTER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xviii + 194 pp. ISBN 1-40393314-6. The eighteenth-century novel is particularly fertile ground for students of the body. For the first time since Shakespeare, writers began to exploit to the full the earthy potential of our flesh-and-blood selves, and readers to gain the accomplishments that enabled them to read back to themselves the visible and tactile resonances of having and being a body. Juliet McMaster's book is a lively and detailed account of the ways that some of those writers and most of their readers participated in the literary coming of age ...

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