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03508aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2095E204BFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220419010024 008 201030s2021 miua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043242 020 $a 0472132369 020 $a 9780472132362 035 $a (OCoLC)1153643397 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d EMU $d YDX $d DLC $d OBE $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR418.D494 $b H63 2021 082 00 $a 820.9/3561 $2 23 100 1 $a Hobgood, Allison P., $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Beholding disability in Renaissance England / $c Allison P. Hobgood. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 270 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Corporealities : discourses of disability 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Acts of beholding -- Early modern ideologies of ability -- Making gains -- Prosthetic possibilities -- Desiring difference -- Disability aesthetics and conservation -- Coda: Beholding, again. 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 7 $a Disabilities in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01940210 650 7 $a English literature $x Early modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710960 650 7 $a People with disabilities in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057365 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hobgood, Allison P., 1977- $t Beholding disability in Renaissance England $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021 $z 9780472128570 $w (DLC) 2020043243 830 0 $a Corporealities. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023506.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2095E204BFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search