{"product_id":"beholding-disability-in-renaissance-england-allison-p-hobgood-9780472132362","title":"Beholding Disability in Renaissance England","description":"Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably.\u003ci\u003e Beholding Disability in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not. Hobgood examines early modern disability, ableism, and disability gain, purposefully employing these contemporary concepts to make clear how disability has historically been disavowed--and avowed too. Thus, this book models how modern ideas and terms make the weight of the past more visible as it marks the present, and cultivates dialogue in which early modern and contemporary theoretical models are mutually informative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeholding Disability\u003c\/i\u003e also uncovers crucial counterdiscourses circulating in the English Renaissance that opposed cultural fantasies of ability and had a keen sensibility toward non-normative embodiments. Hobgood reads impairments as varied as epilepsy, stuttering, disfigurement, deafness, chronic pain, blindness, and castration in order to understand not just powerful fictions of ability present during the Renaissance but also the somewhat paradoxical, surprising ways these ableist ideals provided creative fodder for many Renaissance writers and thinkers. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eBeholding Disability \u003c\/i\u003easks us to reconsider what we think we know about being human both in early modernity, and today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allison P. Hobgood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472132369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472132362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Allison P. Hobgood","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044669944063,"sku":"9780472132362","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17ea0898-bb65-4e63-a051-7bcf9d89e71c.jpg?v=1684974194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beholding-disability-in-renaissance-england-allison-p-hobgood-9780472132362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}