Novel Bodies by Jason S. Farr;

Author:Jason S. Farr;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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    1.  Armstrong argues that, through her speech and writing, Pamela becomes empowered against aristocratic modes of patriarchy. For Armstrong, the fact that Mr. B. is a member of the older landed gentry is crucial to Richardson’s reformist rhetoric. In Pamela, the gentry is a “permeable” class that one could enter through marriage. Woman is thus shown to “negotiate” the terms of her sexual contract, rather than serve as mere object of exchange between men (120). With Pamela, Armstrong argues, Richardson creates a new ruling class, in which a servant girl converts the upper gentry and aristocracy to virtuous domestic values. Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction, 125–141.

    2.  Mitchell and Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis, 47.

    3.  Siebers, Disability Theory, 30.

    4.  Ibid., 7–11. According to Siebers, the “ideology of ability” is “at it simplest a preference for able-bodiedness” and “as the baseline by which humanness is determined” (8).

    5.  Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction, 120.

    6.  Watt, The Rise of the Novel, 135–173.

    7.  McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity, 657–658.

    8.  Kelleher, Making Love, 131–168.

    9.  Richardson, Pamela, 114. All future references to the novel will appear in parenthetical citations.

  10.  Richardson’s disparaging, colorful description invokes characterizations of male members of the ugly club in Liverpool, from around the same period, who were caricatured in a similar manner. The Ugly Club Manuscript, 1743–1754 gives details about the physical appearance of ugly gentlemen that belong to this social club. In these descriptions, close, satirical attention is paid to an individual’s facial features, such as what may be observed in Mrs. Jewkes. For instance, one John Kenyon is described in the following terms, “A very Oblong Visage. Sallow Complexion. Largeish Eyebrows. Cock Eye’d. A pretty long Nose. Lanthorn Jaws. On the whole very much like the Picture of King Charles 2nd in a huge full Bottom’d Wig.” The Ugly Club, 38.

  11.  Mitchell and Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis, 53.

  12.  Ibid., 63.

  13.  Ibid., 53.

  14.  Scott, A Journey through Every Stage of Life, 2. All future references to the novel will appear in parenthetical citations.

  15.  Kelly, “Introduction” to Millenium Hall, 22.

  16.  Bannet, “Life, Letters, and Tales in Sarah Scott’s A Journey through Every Stage of Life,” 233–259.

  17.  Ula Klein explores same-sex eroticism and cross-dressing in A Journey through Every Stage of Life in “Eighteenth-Century Female Cross-Dressers and Their Beards,” 119–143.

  18.  For readings of Fielding’s The Female Husband, see Castle, “Matters Not Fit to Be Mentioned,” 602–622; and Nicolazzo, “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband,” 335–353.

  19.  According to the Vagrant Act of 1744, earning money through fraudulent means, as Leonora does, would be considered an act of vagrancy. See Nicolazzo, “Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband.”

  20.  Sarah Robinson married Sir George Lewis Scott, a mathematician and tutor to the Prince of Wales. Merely one year after their marriage in 1751, Sarah’s brothers and father removed her from her husband’s home. As Caroline Gonda and Betty Rizzo both note, the exact reason for the newlyweds’ separation is unknown—though Gonda surmises that it is likely due to some illicit behavior on George’s part, and Rizzo speculates that he may have had same-sex relations, that he possessed “libertine inclinations,” or that he discovered a romantic relationship between Sarah and Lady Barbara. See

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