The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: monstrous tales Part I. Anomaly and Gender: 1. Fictions of defect: Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood 2. Effeminacy and femininity: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Montagu, and Johnson 3. Odd women, mangled men: the bluestockings and Sterne 4. Scarred women: Frances Burney and smallpox Part II. Race and Gender: 5. Racial femininity: 'Our British Fair' 6. Black women: why Imoinda turns white 7. Black men: Equiano, Sancho, and being a man 8. Black parts: racial counterfeit on stage Coda: between races.