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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Godden, Richard H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mittman, Asa Simon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.