Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Disability and the Literary History of Sexuality 1
4. 1. Deaf Education and Queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720–1732) 36
5. 2. The Reforming Bodies of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott’s Fiction (1754–1766) 71
6. 3. Chronic Illness, Medicine, and the Healthy Marriages of Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) 103
7. 4. Gendered Disfigurement and Queer Ocular Relations in Frances Burney’s Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) 131
8. Coda: Hypochondria and the Implausibility of Heterosexual Romance in Jane Austen’s Sanditon (1817) 164
9. Acknowledgments 171
10. Bibliography 175
11. Index 185
12. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 195