LEADER 03366nam 2200529I 450 001 9910904100703321 005 20201001033941.0 010 $a9780472904747 010 $a0472904744 010 $a9780472128570 010 $a0472128574 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.11741095 035 $a(CKB)4100000011798088 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6532627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6532627 035 $a(OCoLC)1198441404 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.11741095 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011798088 100 $a20201001h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeholding disability in Renaissance England /$fAllison P. Hobgood 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aCorporealities: Discourses of disability 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-250) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Acts of beholding -- Early modern ideologies of ability -- Making gains -- Prosthetic possibilities -- Desiring difference -- Disability aesthetics and conservation -- Coda: Beholding, again. 330 3 $aHuman variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not. Hobgood examines early modern disability, ableism, and disability gain, purposefully employing these contemporary concepts to make clear how disability has historically been disavowed--and avowed too. Thus, this book models how modern ideas and terms make the weight of the past more visible as it marks the present, and cultivates dialogue in which early modern and contemporary theoretical models are mutually informative. Beholding Disability also uncovers crucial counterdiscourses circulating in the English Renaissance that opposed cultural fantasies of ability and had a keen sensibility toward non-normative embodiments. Hobgood reads impairments as varied as epilepsy, stuttering, disfigurement, deafness, chronic pain, blindness, and castration in order to understand not just powerful fictions of ability present during the Renaissance but also the somewhat paradoxical, surprising ways these ableist ideals provided creative fodder for many Renaissance writers and thinkers. Ultimately, Beholding Disability asks us to reconsider what we think we know about being human both in early modernity, and today. 410 0$aCorporealities. 606 $aPeople with disabilities in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPeople with disabilities$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aPeople with disabilities in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xHistory 676 $a820.9/3561 700 $aHobgood$b Allison$01774976 801 0$bEYM 801 1$bEYM 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910904100703321 996 $aBeholding disability in Renaissance England$94288659 997 $aUNINA