Hobgood, Allison P. (Editor)
Wood, David Houston (Editor)
Ohio State University Press
Physical Details: vii + 224 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, until very recently there has been little engagement with disability and disabled selves in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This omission is especially problematic insofar as representations of disabled bodies and minds serve as some of the signature features in English Renaissance texts. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England explores how recent conversations about difference in the period have either overlooked or misidentified disability representations. It also presents early modern disability studies as a new theoretical lens that can reanimate scholarly dialogue about human variation and early modern subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies. The ten essays in this collection range across genre, scope, and time, including examinations of real-life court dwarfs and dwarf narrators in Edmund Spenser's poetry; disability in Aphra Behn's assessment of gender and femininity; disability humor, Renaissance jest books, and cultural ideas about difference; madness in revenge tragedies; Spenserian allegory and impairment; the materiality of literary blindness; feigned disability in Jonsonian drama; political appropriation of Richard III in the postcommunist Czech Republic; the Book of Common Prayeras textual accommodation for cognitive disability; and Thomas Hobbes's and John Locke's inherently ableist conceptions of freedom and political citizenship.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Williams, Katherine Schaap (2014) Review of "Recovering Disability in Early Modern England". Renaissance Quarterly (p. 741).
Chapter Berg, Sara van den (2013) Dwarf Aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Early Modern Court. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 23).
Chapter Bowles, Emily (2013) Maternal Culpability in Fetal Defects: Aphra Behn's Satiric Interrogations of Medical Models. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 43).
Chapter Row-Heyveld, Lindsey (2013) Antic Dispositions: Mental and Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 73).
Chapter Kostihova, Marcela (2013) Richard Recast: Renaissance Disability in a Postcommunist Culture. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 136).
Chapter Philippian, Mardy, Jr. (2013) The Book of Common Prayer, Theory of Mind, and Autism in Early Modern England. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 150).
Chapter Hobgood, Allison P.; Wood, David Houston (2013) Coda: Shakespearean Disability Pedagogy. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 187).
Chapter Hobgood, Allison P.; Wood, David Houston (2013) Introduction: Ethical Staring: Disabling the English Renaissance. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 1).
Chapter Turner, David M. (2013) Disability Humor and the Meanings of Impairment in Early Modern England. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 57).
Chapter Chess, Simone (2013) Performing Blindness: Representing Disability in Early Modern Popular Performance and Print. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 105).
Chapter Hirschmann, Nancy (2013) Freedom and (Dis)Ability in Early Modern Political Thought. In: Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (p. 167).
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