Examines the significant role that disability plays in shaping the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disability and sexuality in flexible ways to reconfigure the political and social landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain.

JASON S. FARR is an assistant professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Disability and the Literary History of Sexuality
1 Deaf Education and Queerness in the Duncan Campbell Compendium (1720-1732)
2 The Reforming Bodies of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Sarah Scott's Fiction (1754-66)
3 Chronic Illness, Medicine, and the Healthy Marriages of Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
4 Gendered Disfigurement and Queer Ocular Relations in Frances Burney's Camilla (1796) and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801)
Coda: Hypochondria and the Implausibility of Heterosexual Romance in Jane Austen's Sanditon (1817)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index