Recovering Disability in Early Modern England - Couverture souple

Wood, David Houston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814256430 ISBN 13 : 9780814256435

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2020

Synopsis

While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, until very recently there has been little engagement with disability and disabled selves in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This omission is especially problematic insofar as representations of disabled bodies and minds serve as some of the signature features in English Renaissance texts. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England explores how recent conversations about difference in the period have either overlooked or misidentified disability representations. It also presents early modern disability studies as a new theoretical lens that can reanimate scholarly dialogue about human variation and early modern subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies. The ten essays in this collection range across genre, scope, and time, including examinations of real-life court dwarfs and dwarf narrators in Edmund Spenser’s poetry; disability in Aphra Behn’s assessment of gender and femininity; disability humor, Renaissance jest books, and cultural ideas about difference; madness in revenge tragedies; Spenserian allegory and impairment; the materiality of literary blindness; feigned disability in Jonsonian drama; political appropriation of Richard III in the postcommunist Czech Republic; the Book of Common Prayeras textual accommodation for cognitive disability; and Thomas Hobbes’s and John Locke’s inherently ableist conceptions of freedom and political citizenship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Allison P. Hobgood is assistant professor of English and a Women's and Gender Studies Program affiliate at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.David Houston Wood is associate professor of English and Honors Program Director at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814256430
• ISBN 13: 9780814256435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Éditeur: Hobgood Allison P.
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