Bucknell University Press,U.S.

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.

Provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. Applying new theoretical approaches, this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways Edna O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death.