The Idea of disability in the eighteenth century
2014; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 52; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.52-0673
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Literature Analysis and Criticism
ResumoCONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Variability: Beyond Sameness and Difference Chris Mounsey Part - Methodological One: Perfect according to their Kind: Deformity, Defect and Disease in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker Two: What's the Matter with Madness? John Locke, the Association of Ideas, and the Physiology of Thought Jess Keiser Three: Defections from Nature: Humanity and Deformity in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy Paul Kelleher Four: Thomas Reid: Power as First Philosophy Emile Bojesen Part Two - Conceptual Five: 'An HOBBY-HORSE Well Worth Giving a Description of: Disability, Trauma, and Language in Tristram Shandy Anna K. Sagal Six: One cannot be too secure: Wrongful Confinement, or, the Pathologies of the Domestic Economy Dana Gliserman Kopans Part Three - Experiential Seven: 'on that rock I lay': Images of Disability Found in Religious Verse Jamie Kinsley Eight: Attractive Deformity: Enabling the Shocking Monster from Sarah Scott's Agreeable Ugliness (1754) Jason S. Farr Nine: Reading Blind Poetess of Lichfield: The Consolatory Odes of Priscilla Poynton Jess Domanico Ten: Thomas Gills: An eighteenth-century blind poet and the language of charity Chris Mounsey Bibliography Index About the Contributors
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