{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-disability-hardback-9781107087828","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (Hardback) 9781107087828","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorking across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClare Barker (Edited by), Stuart Murray (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107087828, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… is an essential resource for scholars, academics and those with personal interest in the depiction and portrayal of disability narratives both historical and contemporary.' Heather Lacey, British Society for Literature and Science Reviews\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding of disability narrative changes the way we read literature. With contributions from major figures in literary disability studies, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability covers a wide range of impairments, including cognitive difference, neurobehavioral conditions, and mental and chronic illnesses. This book shows how disability demands innovation in literary form and aesthetics, challenges the notion of a human 'norm' in the writing of character, and redraws the ways in which writing makes meaning of the broad spectrum of humanity. It will be a key resource for students and teachers of disability and literary studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: on reading disability in literature Clare Barker and Stuart Murray\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Across Literatures: 2. Monsters, saints, and sinners: disability in Medieval literature Edward Wheatley\u003cbr\u003e 3. Early modern literature and disability studies Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood\u003cbr\u003e 4. Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century Essaka Joshua\u003cbr\u003e 5. Embodying affliction in nineteenth-century fiction Martha Stoddard Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 6. Paralyzed modernities and biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature Michael Davidson\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature Stuart Murray\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Radiant affliction': disability narratives in postcolonial literature Clare Barker\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Across Critical Methods: 9. Disability and the edges of intersectionality Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim\u003cbr\u003e 10. The world-making potential of contemporary crip\/queer literary and cultural production Robert McRuer\u003cbr\u003e 11. Race and disability in US literature Michelle Jarman\u003cbr\u003e 12. Disability and women's writing Sami Schalk\u003cbr\u003e 13. Disability in genre fiction Ria Cheyne\u003cbr\u003e 14. Signifying selves: disability and life writing G. Thomas Couser\u003cbr\u003e 15. Disability rhetorics Jay Dolmage\u003cbr\u003e 16. Afterword Petra Kuppers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary companions, book reviews \u0026amp; guides\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20companions,%20book%20reviews%20\u0026amp;%20guides%20%5BDSRC%5D%22\"\u003eDSRC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005822718232,"sku":"9781107087828","price":71.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107087828i_2e934a6e-ec8d-4cd1-8ac3-837bde4fe9da.jpg?v=1696792050","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-literature-and-disability-hardback-9781107087828","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}