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

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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 no...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Godden, Richard H. (Editor), Mittman, Asa Simon (Editor)
Format: 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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXVII, 352 pages 19 illustrations)
ISBN:9783030254582
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-25458-2