1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability; Part I: New Directions in the Field; Disability in Indigenous Literature ; Disability in Black Speculative Fiction; t4t: Towards a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism; Challenging Photocentrism: Writing Signs and Bilingual Deaf Literatures; ""Here There Be Monsters"": Mapping Novel Representations of the Relationship between Disability and Monstrosity in Recent Graphic Narratives and Comic Books; Spectrality, Strangeness, and Stigmaphilia: Gothic and Critical Disability Studies; Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers; Part II: Novels and Short Stories; From ""Changelings"" to ""Libtards"": Intellectual Disability in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond; Crip Gothic: Affiliations of Disability and Queerness in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764); ""Of wonderful use to everyone"": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Afro-modernism and Black Disability Studies; ""What’s the Matter with Him?"": Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud’s ""Idiots First""; Metaphoric.
Biography
Alice Hall teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has previously worked at the University of Nottingham and the University of Paris (III and VII). Alice is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012) and Literature and Disability: Contemporary Critical Thought (2015).
