Disability in eighteenth-century England [[electronic resource] ] : imagining physical impairment / / David M. Turner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462397203321
• Autore: Turner David M. <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-58564-2; 9786613898098; 0-203-11754-9; 1-136-30424-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Modern British History; Routledge studies in modern British history ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 305.9/08094209033; 305.908094209033; 362.4094209033
• Soggetti: People with disabilities - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Defining disability and deformity -- Religious and medical perspectives on disability -- Stereotypes and cultural representation -- Visibility and visualisation : seeing the disabled -- Disabled lives and letters -- Narratives of the disabled poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 abo