Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World Hardback
Edited by Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman
Part of the The New Middle Ages series
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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.
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- Pages:352 pages, 19 Illustrations, black and white; XXVII, 352 p. 19 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:02/12/2019
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- ISBN:9783030254575
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, 19 Illustrations, black and white; XXVII, 352 p. 19 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:02/12/2019
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- ISBN:9783030254575
