Disabling Romanticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137460639)

Foreword; Peter Kitson and Tom Shakespeare.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- 1. Introduction; Michael Bradshaw and Essaka Joshua.- 2. Picturesque Aesthetics: Theorising Deformity in the Romantic Era; Essaka Joshua.- 3. Disability, Sympathy, and Encounter in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Emily B. Stanback.- 4. 'Psychological Curiosit[ies]' from an 'Intellectual Giant': Coleridge, Disease, Disability, and Drugs; Corey Goergen.- 5. 'In mental as in visual darkness lost': Southey's Songs for a Mad King'; David Chandler.- 6. Mary Robinson's Paralysis and the Discourse of Disability; William D. Brewer.- 7. Blakean Wonder and the Unfallen Tharmas: Health, Wholeness, and Holarchy in The Four Zoas; Matt Lorenz.- 8. 'An uneasy mind in an uneasy body': Byron, Disability, Authorship, and Biography; Christine Kenyon Jones.- 9. Autistic Voice and Literary Architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Julia Miele Rodas.- 10. A Hundred Tongues: George Darley's Stammer; Jeremy Davies.- Index.-


Author: Michael Bradshaw
ISBN-10: 1137460636
ISBN-13: 9781137460639
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2016
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.70d