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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor MARK MOSSMAN is an Associate Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on modern Irish and British literatures and disability studies. Previously published work includes essays in such journals as College English , Nineteenth-Century Feminisms , Postmodern Culture , European Romantic Review , and Victorian Literature and Culture . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
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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
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"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
