A funny thing : eighteenth-century literature undisciplined / Eugenia Zuroski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zuroski Jenkins, Eugenia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Eighteenth-century literature is weirder than we realize. A Funny Thing invites readers to be taken by its oddities, its silliness, and its absurdities - both because reading this way is fun, and because this challenges colonialism's disciplinary epistemes of propriety that have consistently bound liberal selfhood to extractive capitalism. Focusing on three aesthetic modes largely unnamed in existing studies of the period's literature - the anamorphic, the ludic, and the orificial - this book offers fresh readings of work by Haywood, Walpole, Bentley, and Burney that point to unexpected legacies from the so-called Age of Reason. This book is for any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction, the period's queer sense of humour, and how writing and art of the time challenge colonial reality. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

A morphogenesis : The anamorphic

An interlude : The ludic

An opening : The orificial

Appendix : An exercise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zuroski Jenkins, Eugenia. Funny thing.

ISBN:

9781009486231

1009486233

9781009486262

1009486268

OCLC:

1481712259

Publisher Number:

CIPO000240273