LEADER 04346nam 22006375 450 001 9910481954303321 005 20251010082504.0 010 $a9783030254582 010 $a3030254585 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-25458-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000009845038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5983879 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-25458-2 035 $a(Perlego)3494540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5983786 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009845038 100 $a20191121d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMonstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World /$fedited by Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (364 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 311 08$a9783030254575 311 08$a3030254577 327 $aSection I: Introduction -- 1. Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman -- Section II: Discourses of Bodily Difference -- 2. From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault -- 3. ?If in Other Respects He Appears to be Effectively Human?: Defining Monstrosity in Medieval English Law -- 4. (Dis)functional Faces: Signs of the Monstrous? -- 5. Grendel and Goliath: Monstrous Superability and Disability in the Old English Corpus -- 6. E(race)ing the Future: Imagined Medieval Reproductive Possibilities and the Monstrosity of Power -- Section III: Dis/Identifying the Other -- 7. "Blob Child" Revisited: Conflations of Monstrosity, Disability, and Race in King of Tars -- 8. Attending to ?Beasts Irrational? in Gower?s Visio Anglie -- 9. How a Monster Means: The Significance of Bodily Difference in the Christopher Cynocephalus Tradition -- 10. Lycanthropy andLunacy: Cognitive Disability in The Duchess of Malfi -- 11. Eschatology for Cannibals: A System of Aberrance in the Old English Andreas -- 12. The Monstrous Womb of Early Modern Midwifery Manuals -- Section IV: Queer Couplings -- 13. Blindness and Posthuman Sexuality in Paradise Lost -- 14. Dwelling Underground in The Book of John Mandeville: Monstrosity, Disability, Ecology -- Section V: Coda -- 15. Muteness and Disembodied Difference: Three Case Studies. 330 $aThis collection examines the intersection of the discourses of ?disability? and ?monstrosity? in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed ?the extraordinary body? is labeled a ?monster.? This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism. 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aEuropean literature 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 14$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 676 $a809.02 676 $a809.933527 702 $aGodden$b Richard H$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aMittman$b Asa Simon$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 712 02$aProQuest (Firm), 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910481954303321 996 $aMonstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World$92849488 997 $aUNINA