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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century By Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century by Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century by Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)

The long 19th centurystretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing to the creation of a mass-produced environment hostile to bodies and minds that did not adhere to emerging norms. In defining disability, medical views, which framed disabilities as problems to be solved, competed with discourses from such diverse realms as religion, entertainment, education, and literature. Disabled writers and activists generated important counternarratives, made increasingly available through the spread of print culture. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century includes chapters on atypical bodies, mobility impairment, chronic pain and illness, blindness, deafness, speech dysfluencies, learning difficulties, and mental health, with 37 illustrations drawn from period sources.

A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century Reviews

The contributions this book features will be of immense value to students and scholars who are new to the field. As a whole, the book will also serve as a useful reference work for experienced researchers in the field looking to recap their knowledge or find inspiration for new directions of research. * Literature & History, Ball State University Libraries *

About Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)

Martha Stoddard Holmes is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos, USA. Joyce L. Huff is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Negotiating Normalcy in the Long Nineteenth Century, Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind, Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USA Chapter 4: Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba, Canada Chapter 5: Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield, UK Chapter 6: Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin, MacEwan University, Canada Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of Idiocy in the Nineteenth Century, Patrick McDonagh, Concordia University, Canada Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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NGR9781350436725
9781350436725
1350436720
A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century by Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)
Professor Joyce L. Huff (Ball State University, USA)
The Cultural Histories Series
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2024-04-18
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