Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing - 1800-1922

Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Irish Studies Meets Disability Studies Irish Girl Gone Wild Sensation, Suffering, and Despair States of Semiparalysis Conclusion: States of Paralysis, a Sketch Notes Bibliography Index

Report

"Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922 exposes the pervasive and the problematic dynamics of disability that have constituted representations of modern Ireland and Irishness, and to which any responsible critique must now attend." - New Hibernia Review

Product details

• Authors: Mark Mossman
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2009
• EAN: 9781349365432
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36543-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 10 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 258 g
• Illustrations: IX, 188 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories