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The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Variability : beyond sameness and difference / Chris Mounsey
- Part 1: Methodological. "Perfect according to their kind" : deformity, defect and disease in the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker ; What's the matter with madness? : John Locke, the Association of Ideas, and the physiology of thought / Jess Keiser ; Defections from nature : the rhetoric of deformity in Shaftesbury's Characteristics / Paul Kelleher ; Thomas Reid : power as first philosophy / Emile Bojesen
- Part 2: Conceptual. "An HOBBY-HORSE well worth giving a description of" : disability, trauma, and language in Tristram Shandy / Anna K. Sagal ; "One cannot be too secure" : wrongful confinement, or, the pathologies of the domestic economy / Dana Gliserman Kopans
- Part 3: Experiential. "On that rock I lay" : images of disability found in religious verse / Jamie Kinsley ; Attractive deformity : enabling the "shocking monster" from Sarah Scott's Agreeable ugliness / Jason S. Farr ; Reading "The Blind Poetess of Lichfield" : the consolatory odes of Priscilla Poyton / Jess Domanico ; God grant us grace, that we may take due pains, to practice what this exercise contains; to which, if we apply our best endeavour, we shall be happy here, and bless'd for ever / Chris Mounsey.