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  title info:
    title: Invalid modernism
    sub title: disability and the missing body of the aesthetic
  name:
    name part: Davidson, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body.' It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period marked by progressive reforms in health, labor and welfare. Readings of texts by Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, F.T. Marinetti, Jean Toomer, an opera by Alexander Zemlinsky and paintings and constructions by dadaists and surrealists are set against the historical developments in sexology, medical discourse and the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and anthropometry. Modernist works are well known for challenging formal features of narration and representation, but it is seldom observed that this challenge has often been enabled by figures of shell-shocked veterans, tubercular heroines, blind soothsayers, invalid aesthetes and neurasthenic women. Such figures complicate an aesthetics of autonomy by which modernism is often understood. Since its evolution in the eighteenth century, aesthetics has been seen in terms of judgments based on detached appreciation. What begins as a highly privative, sensate response to an object or natural formation results in a disinterested judgment about the value of that response. By looking at modernist aesthetics through a disability optic, Invalid Modernism attempts to restore the missing body to aesthetics by disclosing a structure of feeling around dramatic changes in modernity. These changes are registered on and through the bodies and minds of figures considered in medical discourse of the period as 'invalid' citizens and subjects.
  note: Michael Davidson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-194) and index.
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities and the arts
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: Disabilities
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities in literature
  subject:
    topic: Disabilities in literature
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  classification: NX180.H34 D38 2019
  classification: 704.08
  identifier: 0198832818
  identifier: 9780198832812
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181003
    record change date: 20190718165308.0
    record identifier: in00004063978