The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores philosophy, biography, and texts about and by disabled people living in the eighteenth century. The book, which introduces and affirms the notion that disability studies predates most United States and United Kingdom findings by more than a hundred years, will be of interest to philosophers, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars.
The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores philosophy, biography, and texts about and by disabled people living in the eighteenth century. The book, which introduces and affirms the notion that disability studies predates most United States and United Kingdom findings by more than a hundred years, will be of interest to philosophers, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars.
Edited by Chris Mounsey - Contributions by Sharon Alker; Emile Bojesen; Jess Domanico; Jason S. Farr; Jess Keiser; Paul Kelleher; Jamie Kinsley; Dana Gliserman Kopans; Holly Faith Nelson and Anna K. Sagal
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Variability: Beyond Sameness and Difference Chris Mounsey Part One - 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 "The 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
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Variability: Beyond Sameness and Difference Chris Mounsey Part One - 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 "The 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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