The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment.
Reveals how various British texts from the eighteenth century associate female cross-dressing with the possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire.
Focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished British naval officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a leg: Lord Horatio Nelson, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon.
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