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Bodies of modernism : physical disability in transatlantic modernist literature / Maren Tova Linett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linett, Maren Tova.
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Mind and body in literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welly, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Olive Moore, Carson McCuliers, Tennessee Williams, J. M. Synge, and Florence Barclay, as well as high modernists Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Through readings of this wide range of texts and with chapters focusing on mobility impairments, deafness, blindness, and deformity, the study reveals both modernism's skepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, "normal" bodies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Mobility and Sexuality 19
- 2 Blindness and Intimacy 55
- 3 Deafness, Communication, and Knowledge 85
- 4 Knowledge Redux: Sensory Disability in Ulysses 119
- 5 Deformity and Modernist Form 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472073313
- 9780472053315
- 9780472122486
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8432101
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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