The variable body in history / Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mounsey, Chris, 1959- editor.

Booth, Stan (Of University of Winchester), editor.

Series:

Queering paradigms : in focus ; 1.

Queering paradigms : in focus ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy)--History.

Human body (Philosophy).

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

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 or 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Speaking Forwards in History / Chris Mounsey Mounsey, Chris 1

In/Dis-Ability: A Medievalist's Perspective / Irina Metzler Metzler, Irina 13

The Possibility of an Island: Colonialism, Embodiment and Utopia in Pre-Modern Literature / Adleen Crapo Crapo, Adleen 33

'This so low a purpose': Richard Mulcaster and the Aims of Public Education in Sixteenth-Century England / Emile Bojesen Bojesen, Emile 45

Thersites and Deformity / Kevin Berland Berland, Kevin 55

Aphra Behn's 'Blind Lady': Reading Impairment/Impairing Reading / Chris Mounsey Mounsey, Chris 81

Laughing about and Talking about the Idiot in the Eighteenth Century / Simon Jarrett Jarrett, Simon 99

LESS is More: The Mysterious Case of the Invisible Countess of Derby / Stan Booth Booth, Stan 117

Improper Conjunctions: Scandalous Images and Dangerous Bodies in 'Crim. Con. Temptations with Prices Affix'd' / Miriam L. Wallace Wallace, Miriam L. 147

The Blind Made Happy: Arcs of Reward and Redemption in Early Modern Children's Texts / Katharine Kittredge Kittredge, Katharine 171

"The awful individuality of suffering': Disabled Characterization in Dinah Mulock Craik's Olive and A Noble Life / Clare Walker Gore Gore, Clare Walker 203

Constructing La Goulue: The Queer, the Criminal and the Cancan / Will Visconti Visconti, Will 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781906165727

1906165726

OCLC:

959953485

Publisher Number:

99969721743