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The Madwoman and the Blindman - Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability

English · Paperback / Softback

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This breakthrough volume of critical essays on Jane Eyre from a disability perspective provides fresh insight into Charlotte Brontë's classic novel from a vantage point that is of growing academic and cultural importance. Contributors include many of the preeminent disability scholars publishing today, including a foreword by Lennard J. Davis.

Though an indisputable classic and a landmark text for critical voices from feminism to Marxism to postcolonialism, until now, Jane Eyre has never yet been fully explored from a disability perspective. Customarily, impairment in the novel has been read unproblematically as loss, an undesired deviance from a condition of regularity vital to stable closure of the marriage plot. In fact, the most visible aspects of disability in the novel have traditionally been understood in rather rudimentary symbolic terms-the blindness of Rochester and the "madness" of Bertha apparently standing in for other aspects of identity. The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, resists this traditional reading of disability in the novel. Informed by a variety of perspectives-cultural studies, linguistics, and gender and film studies-the essays in this collection suggest surprising new interpretations, parsing the trope of the Blindman, investigating the embodiment of mental illness, and proposing an autistic identity for Jane Eyre. As the first volume of criticism dedicated to analyzing and theorizing the role of disability in a single literary text, The Madwoman and the Blindman is a model for how disability studies can open new conversation and critical thought within the literary canon.


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David Bolt is Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies and lecturer in education at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK. Elizabeth Donaldson is associate professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. Julia Miele Rodas is assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College.

Product details

Assisted by David Bolt (Editor), Elizabeth J. Donaldson (Editor), Julia Miele Rodas (Editor)
Publisher Ohio state university press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2015
 
EAN 9780814252260
ISBN 978-0-8142-5226-0
No. of pages 212
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Weight 352 g
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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