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

Ms. Nussbaum's book is original and significant in drawing extensive connections among representations of race, gender, and anomaly from the Restoration to abolition. Ms. Nussbaum's objectives are ambitious, and she candidly acknowledges that " [s]ome readers may wish for a book on ea...

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Published in:The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 2005, Vol.37/38 (2/1), p.154
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