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" Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world / "
Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.
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862675
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Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world /\ Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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The new Middle Ages
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1 online resource (xxvii, 352 pages) :: illustrations
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3030254577
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: 3030254585
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: 9783030254582
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: 9783030254575
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 Gowers 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.
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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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Monsters in literature.
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Monsters.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities-- History.
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Monsters in literature.
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Monsters.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.409
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HV1552
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Godden, Richard H.
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Mittman, Asa Simon,1976-
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