Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment

by David M. Turner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138107581
• ISBN13: 9781138107588
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"