Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108836708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 250 str.

Indiana) Joshua Essaka (University of Notre Dame

Opis

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

Recenzje

'The greatest contribution of this book is to deepen our understanding of the long history of representation by offering a detailed peek into the unfamiliar language of Romantic-era disability …' Fuson Wang, European Romantic Review

Spis treści

Part I. Politics of Ability: 1. William Godwin and capacity; 2. Invigorating women: female weakness in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft; 3. Wordsworth's 'The Discharged Soldier' and the question of desert; Part II. Aesthetics of Deformity: 4. Picturesque aesthetics: theorizing deformity in the Romantic era; 5. Relational deformity in Frances Burney's Camilla; 6. Monstrous sights: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.