Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

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 no...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Godden, Richard H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mittman, Asa Simon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:The New Middle Ages
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Section 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 and Lunacy: 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.