Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World (1st ed. 2019) (The New Middle Ages)
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- Synopsis
- This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.
- Copyright:
- 2019
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783030254582
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030254575
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 12/03/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Richard H. Godden
- Edited by:
- Asa Simon Mittman
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