The body in Swift and Defoe

Introduction: literary remains: the body as matter for text 1. Dull organs: the matter of the body in the plague year 2. The burthen in the belly 3. Consuming desires: Defoe's sexual systems 4. Flesh and blood: Swift's sexual strategies 5. The ladies: d--ned, insolent, proud, unmannerly sluts 6. Chains of consumption: the bodies of the poor 7. Consumptive fictions: cannibalism in Defoe and Swift Afterword: ... suppose me dead and then suppose ... Notes.