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Bodies of modernism : physical disability in transatlantic modernist literature / Maren Tova Linett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linett, Maren Tova, author.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Mind and body in literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- 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 Welty, H.G.Wells, D.H.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Mobility and Sexuality
- 2. Blindness and Intimacy
- 3. Deafness, Communication, and Knowledge
- 4. Knowledge Redux: Sensory Disability in Ulysses
- 5. Deformity and Modernist Form
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472122486
- 0472122487
- OCLC:
- 965825461
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8432101
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