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Idiocy : a cultural history /
The term 'idiot' is a damning put down, whether deployed on the playground or in the board room. People stigmatized as being 'intellectually disabled' today must confront variants of the fear and pity with which society has greeted them for centuries. This study explores how arti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Representations (Liverpool, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations
- 'Stripping our own hearts naked': William Wordsworth and John Wilson read 'The idiot boy'
- A 'pupil of innocent nature!' The wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris
- Diminished men: masculinity and idiocy
- Essential women: feminity and idiocy
- Holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin
- History, society, economy: holy fools and idiots come home in nineteenth-century literature
- Barnaby Rudge, idiocy and paternalism: assisting the 'poor idiot'
- Innocence, philanthropy and economics: the new 'asylum' idiot
- Sensational idiocy
- 'The sins of the fathers': idiocy, evolution and degeneration
- Danger and degeneracy: the threat of the urban idiot
- The problem of the feeble-minded: the Royal Commission, eugenics and eternal chaos
- Epilogue.