{"product_id":"disability-health-and-happiness-in-sujata-iyengar-9781138804289","title":"Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures understand physical ability or vigor, emotional competence or satisfaction, and joy or self-fulfillment. Individual essays investigate the purported disabilities of the \"crook-back\" King Richard III or the \"corpulent\" Falstaff, the conflicts between different health-care belief-systems in \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, the power of figurative language to delineate or even instigate puberty in the \u003ci\u003eSonnets\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, and the ways in which the powerful or moneyed mediate the access of the poor and injured to cure or even to care. Integrating insights from Disability Studies, Health Studies, and Happiness Studies, this book develops both a detailed literary-historical analysis and a provocative cultural argument about the emphasis we place on popular notions of fitness and contentment today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sujata Iyengar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138804282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138804289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Sujata Iyengar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065369702655,"sku":"9781138804289","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d70e62db-2171-41a4-b157-3dc6a17eb811.jpg?v=1768674751","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disability-health-and-happiness-in-sujata-iyengar-9781138804289","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}