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Tables of Contents for The Limits of the Human
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: monstrous tales
Part I. Anomaly and Gender: 1. Fictions of defect: Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood
2. Effeminacy and femininity: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Montagu, and Johnson
3. Odd women, mangled men: the bluestockings and Sterne
4. Scarred women: Frances Burney and smallpox
Part II: 5. Racial femininity: 'Our British Fair'
6. Black women: why Imoinda turns white
7. Black men: Equiano, Sancho, and being a man
8. Black parts: racial counterfeit on stage
Coda: between races.