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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England - Imagining Physical Impairment (Paperback)
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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England - Imagining Physical Impairment (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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This is the first book-length study of physical disability in
eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings
of physical difference were formed within different cultural
contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,
appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of
their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related
questions: what constituted 'disability' in eighteenth-century
culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people
with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do
their stories tell us about the social and cultural contexts of
disability, and in what ways were these narratives and experiences
shaped by class and gender? In order to answer these questions, the
book explores the languages of disability, the relationship between
religious and medical discourses of disability, and analyzes
depictions of people with disabilities in popular culture, art, and
the media. It also uncovers the 'hidden histories' of disabled men
and women themselves drawing on elite letters and autobiographies,
Poor Law documents and criminal court records.
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