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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789374503321

Titolo

The idea of disability in the eighteenth century / / edited by Chris Mounsey ; Emile Bojesen [and ten others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Disciplina

808.83

808.83/93527

808.8393527

Soggetti

People with disabilities in literature

People with disabilities - History

Disability studies

Sociology of disability

Literature, Modern - 18th century - History and criticism

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

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Variability: Beyond Sameness and Difference; Part One. METHODOLOGICAL; Chapter 1. "PERFECT ACCORDING TO THEIR KIND": Deformity, Defect, and Disease in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish; Chapter 2. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MADNESS? John Locke, the Association of Ideas, and the Physiology of Thought; Chapter 3. DEFECTIONS FROM NATURE: The Rhetoric of Deformity in Shaftesbury's Characteristics; Chapter 4. THOMAS REID: Power as First Philosophy; Part Two. CONCEPTUAL

Chapter 5. "AN HOBBY-HORSE WELL WORTH GIVING A DESCRIPTION OF": Disability, Trauma, and Language in Tristram ShandyChapter 6. "ONE CANNOT BE TOO SECURE": Wrongful Confinement, or, the Pathologies of the Domestic Economy; Part Three. EXPERIENTIAL; Chapter 7. "ON THAT ROCK I LAY": Images of Disability Found in Religious Verse; Chapter 8. ATTRACTIVE DEFORMITY: Enabling the "Shocking Monster" from Sarah Scott's Agreeable Ugliness; Chapter 9.



READING "THE BLIND POETESS OF LICHFIELD": The Consolatory Odes of Priscilla Poynton

Chapter 10. GOD GRANT US GRACE, THAT WE MAY TAKE DUE PAINS, TO PRACTICE WHAT THIS EXERCISE CONTAINS TO WHICH, IF WE APPLY OUR BEST ENDEAVOUR, WE SHALL BE HAPPY HERE, AND BLESS'D FOR EVER. Thomas Gills: An Eighteenth-Century Blind Poet and the Language of Charity; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores philosophy, biography, and texts about and by disabled people living in the eighteenth century. The book, which introduces and affirms the notion that disability studies predates most United States and United Kingdom findings by more than a hundred years, will be of interest to philosophers, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars.