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Monstrous kinds : body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability / Elizabeth B. Bearden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975- author.
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Social aspects--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- People with disabilities.
- Human body--Social aspects--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- Human body.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- People with disabilities in art.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning. Understanding how early modern writers approached disability not only provides more accurate genealogies of disability, but also helps nuance current aesthetic and theoretical disability formulations. The book analyzes the cultural valences of early modern disability across a broad national and chronological span, attending to the specific bodily, spatial, and aesthetic systems that contributed to early modern literary representations of disability. The cross section of texts (including conduct books and treatises, travel writing and wonder books) is comparative, putting canonical European authors such as Castiglione into dialogue with transatlantic and Anglo-Ottoman literary exchange.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Ideal Monster: Disability, Courtliness, and Civilizing Body Talk
- Before Normal, There Was Natural: John Bulwer, Disability, and Natural Signing in England and Beyond
- Moctezuma's Zoo or CorteIÌ€℗£s's Courtiers: Geographies of Disability in Mexica and European Courts
- "Signing in the Seraglio": Global Disability in European Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Court
- "Unnaturall Order": Conjoined Twins and Monstrous Narration in the Wonder Book
- Coda
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472124589
- 0472124587
- OCLC:
- 1076274686
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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