Monstrous Kinds - Body, Space, Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

Explores textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning.

Summary

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Bearden
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780472131129
• ISBN: 978-0-472-13112-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability; Corporealities: Discourses of
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies