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Disability in eighteenth-century England : imagining physical impairment /
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in mak...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Collection: | Routledge studies in modern British history ;
8. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Defining disability and deformity
- Religious and medical perspectives on disability
- Stereotypes and cultural representation
- Visibility and visualisation : seeing the disabled
- Disabled lives and letters
- Narratives of the disabled poor
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.