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The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores philosophy, biography, and texts about and by disabled people living in the eighteenth century. The book, which introduces and affirms the notion that disability studies predates most United States and United Kingdom findings by more than a hundred years, will be of interest to philosophers, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars.
List of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Variability: Beyond Sameness and Difference
Chris Mounsey
Part One - Methodological
One: "Perfect according to their Kind": Deformity, Defect and Disease in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker
Two: What's the Matter with Madness? John Locke, the Association of Ideas, and the Physiology of Thought
Jess Keiser
Three: Defections from Nature: Humanity and Deformity in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy
Paul Kelleher
Four: Thomas Reid: Power as First Philosophy
Emile Bojesen
Part Two - Conceptual
Five: 'An HOBBY-HORSE Well Worth Giving a Description of: Disability, Trauma, and Language in Tristram Shandy
Anna K. Sagal
Six: "One cannot be too secure:" Wrongful Confinement, or, the Pathologies of the Domestic Economy
Dana Gliserman Kopans
Part Three - Experiential
Seven: 'on that rock I lay': Images of Disability Found in Religious Verse
Jamie Kinsley
Eight: Attractive Deformity: Enabling the "Shocking Monster" from Sarah Scott's Agreeable Ugliness (1754)
Jason S. Farr
Nine: Reading "The Blind Poetess of Lichfield": The Consolatory Odes of Priscilla Poynton
Jess Domanico
Ten: Thomas Gills: An eighteenth-century blind poet and the language of charity
Chris Mounsey
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Chris Mounsey - Contributions by Sharon Alker; Emile Bojesen; Jess Domanico; Jason S. Farr; Jess Keiser; Paul Kelleher; Jamie Kinsley; Dana Gliserman Kopans; Holly Faith Nelson and Anna K. Sagal
