Disabling Romanticism edited by Michael Bradshaw.

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience. It is the first collection of its kind, breaking new ground in re-interpreting key texts and providing a challenging overview of this emerging field. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Bradshaw, Michael (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:	1st ed. 2016.
Series:	Literary Disability Studies Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Literature, Modern—18th century. Poetry. British literature. Literature—History and criticism. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

Foreword; Peter Kitson and Tom Shakespeare
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction; Michael Bradshaw and Essaka Joshua
2. Picturesque Aesthetics: Theorising Deformity in the Romantic Era; Essaka Joshua
3. Disability, Sympathy, and Encounter in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798); Emily B. Stanback
4. ‘Psychological Curiosit[ies]’ from an ‘Intellectual Giant’: Coleridge, Disease, Disability, and Drugs; Corey Goergen
5. ‘In mental as in visual darkness lost’: Southey’s Songs for a Mad King'; David Chandler
6. Mary Robinson’s Paralysis and the Discourse of Disability; William D. Brewer
7. Blakean Wonder and the Unfallen Tharmas: Health, Wholeness, and Holarchy in The Four Zoas; Matt Lorenz
8. ‘An uneasy mind in an uneasy body’: Byron, Disability, Authorship, and Biography; Christine Kenyon Jones
9. Autistic Voice and Literary Architecture in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Julia Miele Rodas
10. A Hundred Tongues: George Darley’s Stammer; Jeremy Davies
Index.-.

Disabling Romanticism edited by Michael Bradshaw.

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