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Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ‘deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man’. During the long eighteenth century, new ideas from aesthetics and the emerging scientific disciplines of physics, biology and zoology contributed to changing fundamental notions about human form, function and ability. The interrelated concepts of the natural and the beautiful coalesced into a hegemonic ideology of form, one which defined communal standards regarding which aspects of human appearance and ability would be considered typical and socially acceptable and which would not. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

Author Biography:

D. Christopher Gabbard is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida, USA. He is the author of A Life Beyond Reason and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, The Disabled Detective and is co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.
Release date NZ
April 15th, 2024
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by D Christopher Gabbard
  • Edited by Susannah B. Mintz
Illustrations
15 bw illus
Pages
200
ISBN-13
9781350436732
Product ID
37920769

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