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Title:

Recovering disability in early modern England / edited by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.

Other Authors:

Hobgood, Allison P., 1977-
Wood, David Houston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-208) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : ethical staring : disabling the English Renaissance / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. Hile -- Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess -- "There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker -- Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová -- The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr -- Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy Hirschmann -- Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.

ISBN:

0814293166 (cd)
9780814293164 (cd)
0814212158 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212158 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816029638

LCCN:

2012048536

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)