Essaka Joshua (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is for Romantic era scholars/students interested in revising their view on major Romantic texts by reading with sensitivity to ideas and concepts around disability; and for literary disability studies' scholars and students wishing to extend their understanding of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836708
• ISBN-10: 1108836704
• Artikelnr.: 60014952

Autorenporträt

Essaka Joshua is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Pygmalion and Galatea (2001) and The Romantics and the May Day Tradition (2007). She won the Tyler Rigg Award for Disability Studies Scholarship in Literature and Literary Analysis in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

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.