1st Edition
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England Imagining Physical Impairment
By David M. Turner
Copyright 2012
228 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
242 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what... Read more
Selected Contents: 1. Defining Disability and Deformity 2. Religious and Medical Perspectives on Disability 3. Stereotypes and Cultural Representation 4. Visibility and Visualisation: Seeing the Disabled 5. Disabled Lives and Letters 6. Narratives of the Disabled Poor
Biography
David M. Turner is Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University.
