Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Godden, Richard H.
2. Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976-

Description

1. xxvii, 352 pages : illustrations (black and white); 21 cm.

Summary

1. This 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.

Series statement

1. The new Middle Ages

Uniform title

1. New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

Subject

1. 1400-1599
2. Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
3. Art, Medieval > Themes, motives
4. Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism
5. Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
6. People with disabilities in literature
7. People with disabilities in art
8. Disabilities in literature
9. Monsters in literature
10. Monsters in art
11. Literature, Medieval
12. Literature, Modern
13. Behinderung Motiv
14. Kunst
15. Literatur
16. Ungeheuer

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Section I: introduction -- Embodied difference: monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman -- Section II: discourses of bodily difference -- From monstrosity to postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault -- "If in other respects he appears to be effectively human": defining monstrosity in Medieval English law -- (Dis)functional faces: signs of the monstrous? -- Grendel and Goliath: monstrous superability and disability in the Old English corpus -- Embracing the future: imagined Medieval reproductive possibilities and the monstrosity of power -- Section III: dis/identifying the other -- "Blob child" revistited" conflations of monstrosity, disability, and race in King of Tars -- Attending to "beasts irrational" and Gower's Visio Anglie -- How a monster means: the significance of bodily difference in Christopher Cynocephalus tradition -- Lycanthrophy and lunacy: cognitive disability in The Duchess of Malfi -- Eschatology for cannibals: a system of aberrance in the Old English Andreas -- The monstrous womb of early modern midwifery manuals -- Section IV: queer couplings -- Blindness and posthuman sexuality in Paradise Lost -- Dwelling underground in The Book of John Mandeville: monstrosity, disability, ecology -- Section V: Coda -- Muteness and disembodied difference: three case studies

Call number

1. JFD 20-1723

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-344) and index.

Title

1. Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the medieval and early modern world / Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.

Publisher

1. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. The new Middle Ages
2. New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-344) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1400-1599

Added author

1. Godden, Richard H., editor.
2. Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9783030254582

ISBN

1. 9783030254575 hardback
2. 3030254577 hardback
3. 9783030254582 (PDF ebook)

Research call number

1. JFD 20-1723