ISBN:
9780203117545
,
9780415886444
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 213 p.
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
DDC:
305.9/08094209033
Keywords:
Attitude to Health
;
History, 18th Century
;
Disabled Persons history
;
People with disabilities - Great Britain - History - 18th century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what constituted 'disability' in eighteenth-century culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do their stories tell us about
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defining Disability and Deformity; 2 Religious and Medical Perspectives on Disability; 3 Stereotypes and Cultural Representation; 4 Visibility and Visualisation: Seeing the Disabled; 5 Disabled Lives and Letters; 6 Narratives of the Disabled Poor; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
seeing the disabled -- Disabled lives and letters -- Narratives of the disabled poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
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