{"product_id":"body-language-kathleen-tamayo-alves-9781684485703","title":"Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complex intersections of British eighteenth-century comic fiction and medical discourse. By engaging medical writings of renowned and widely-read physicians of the Enlightenment such as John Freind, Thomas Sydenham, Albrecht von Haller, John Whytt, and William Cullen, with novels of humor by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, and Charlotte Lennox, Alves explains how medicine shaped comic language by dramatizing female-specific phenomena like menstruation, hysteria, nervous disorders, and pregnancy.In these novels, the medical belief that women are incapable of bodily self-regulation becomes an imperative for policing women's bodies and highlights the enduring shortcomings of patriarchal systems. Ultimately, these comic representations offer a counternarrative of women's bodies, agency, and selfhood, exposing masculine anxieties about the effectiveness of marriage to regulate women's sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Tamayo Alves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684485703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684485703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Kathleen Tamayo Alves","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46825942745343,"sku":"9781684485703","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5896cdf5-6678-4af8-b362-7d11ba966c34.jpg?v=1746074095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/body-language-kathleen-tamayo-alves-9781684485703","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}