1st Edition

A Brief Literary History of Disability

By Fuson Wang Copyright 2023
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

A Brief Literary History of Disability is a convenient, lucid, and accessible entry point into the rapidly evolving conversation around disability in literary studies. The book follows a chronological structure and each chapter pairs a well-known literary text with a foundational disability theorist in order to develop a simultaneous understanding of literary history and disability theory. The... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Early Modern

Chapter 1: A Pre-History of Narrative Prosthesis

Chapter 2: Renaissance Historiography

Part 2: Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3: An Age of Enlightenment

Chapter 4: An Age of Satire

Part 3: Romantic

Chapter 5: Human Flourishing

Chapter 6: Approaching Normal

Part 4: Victorian

Chapter 7: Spectacular Metaphors

Chapter 8: Why Tonga Must Die

Part 5: Modernism/Postmodernism

Chapter 9: We Normals

Chapter 10: Destigmatizing Difference

Part 6: Contemporary

Chapter 11: Disability Autobiography

Chapter 12: The Coalitional Politics of Disability

Biography

Fuson Wang is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he is currently the co-director of the Medical and Health Humanities Studies program. He has published widely in British Romantic literature, disability studies, and medical humanities.