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Monstrous kinds : body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability
- Title
- Monstrous kinds : body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability / Elizabeth B. Bearden.
- Author
- Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning. Understanding how early modern writers approached disability not only provides more accurate genealogies of disability, but also helps nuance current aesthetic and theoretical disability formulations. The book analyzes the cultural valences of early modern disability across a broad national and chronological span, attending to the specific bodily, spatial, and aesthetic systems that contributed to early modern literary representations of disability. The cross section of texts (including conduct books and treatises, travel writing and wonder books) is comparative, putting canonical European authors such as Castiglione into dialogue with transatlantic and Anglo-Ottoman literary exchange. Bearden questions grand narratives that convey a progression of disability from supernatural marvel to medical specimen, suggesting that, instead, these categories coexist and intersect.
- Series Statement
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Uniform Title
- Corporealities.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Ideal Monster: Disability, Courtliness, and Civilizing Body Talk -- Before Normal, There Was Natural: John Bulwer, Disability, and Natural Signing in England and Beyond -- Moctezuma's Zoo or Cortés's Courtiers: Geographies of Disability in Mexica and European Courts -- "Signing in the Seraglio": Global Disability in European Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Court -- "Unnaturall Order": Conjoined Twins and Monstrous Narration in the Wonder Book.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-4512
- ISBN
- 9780472131129
- 0472131125
- 9780472124589 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018035624
- OCLC
- 1055264322
- Author
- Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975- author.
- Title
- Monstrous kinds : body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability / Elizabeth B. Bearden.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Corporealities: discourses of disabilityCorporealities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1450-1600
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975- author. Monstrous kinds Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019 9780472124589 (DLC) 2018052303
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-4512