Recovering disability in early modern England

Introduction : ethical staring : disabling the English Renaissance / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of med...

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Contributors: Hobgood, Allison P. 1977- (Editor) ; Wood, David Houston (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Hobgood, Allison P., Recovering Disability in Early Modern England] (2014) (Marculescu, Andreea)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B English language / Literature / Handicap (Motif) / History 1500-1700
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B People with disabilities in literature
B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism
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Summary:Introduction : ethical staring : disabling the English Renaissance / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. Hile -- Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess -- "There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker -- Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová -- The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr -- Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy Hirschmann -- Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0814212158