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Author:
Hobgood, Allison P., 1977- author.
Title:
Beholding disability in Renaissance England / Allison P. Hobgood.
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
1500-1700
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.
Disabilities in literature.
English literature--Early modern.
People with disabilities in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Acts of beholding -- Early modern ideologies of ability -- Making gains -- Prosthetic possibilities -- Desiring difference -- Disability aesthetics and conservation -- Coda: Beholding, again.
Summary:
"Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not. Hobgood examines early modern disability, ableism, and disability gain, purposefully employing these contemporary concepts to make clear how disability has historically been disavowed-and avowed too. Thus, this book models how modern ideas and terms make the weight of the past more visible as it marks the present, and cultivates dialogue in which early modern and contemporary theoretical models are mutually informative. Beholding Disability also uncovers crucial counterdiscourses circulating in the English Renaissance that opposed cultural fantasies of ability and had a keen sensibility toward non-normative embodiments. Hobgood reads impairments as varied as epilepsy, stuttering, disfigurement, deafness, chronic pain, blindness, and castration in order to understand not just powerful fictions of ability present during the Renaissance but also the somewhat paradoxical, surprising ways these ableist ideals provided creative fodder for many Renaissance writers and thinkers. Ultimately, Beholding Disability asks us to reconsider what we think we know about being human both in early modernity, and today"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Corporealities : discourses of disability
ISBN:
0472132369
9780472132362
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1153643397
LCCN:
2020043242
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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