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The essays in this book explore the different ways the body has been experienced and interpreted in history, from the medieval to the modern period. Challenging the negative perceptions that the term 'disability' suggests, the essays together present a mosaic of literary representations of bodies and accounts of real lives lived in their particularity and peculiarity. The book does not attempt to be exhaustive, but rather it celebrates the fact that it is not. By presenting a group of individual cases from different periods in history, the collection demonstrates that any overarching way of describing bodies, or unifying description of the experience of the myriad ways of being in a body, is reductive and unhelpful. The variability of each body in its context is our subject.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Speaking Forwards in History
- In/Dis-Ability: A Medievalistâs Perspective
- The Possibility of an Island: Colonialism, Embodiment and Utopia in Pre-Modern Literature
- âThis so low a purposeâ: Richard Mulcaster and the Aims of Public Education in Sixteenth-Century England
- Thersites and Deformity
- Aphra Behnâs âBlind Ladyâ: Reading Impairment/Impairing Reading
- Laughing about and Talking about the Idiot in the Eighteenth Century
- LESS is More: The Mysterious Case of the Invisible Countess of Derby
- Improper Conjunctions: Scandalous Images and Dangerous Bodies in âCrim. Con. Temptations with Prices Affixâdâ
- The Blind Made Happy: Arcs of Reward and Redemption in Early Modern Childrenâs Texts
- âThe awful individuality of sufferingâ: Disabled Characterization in Dinah Mulock Craikâs Olive and A Noble Life
- Constructing La Goulue: The Queer, the Criminal and the Cancan
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index