David M. Turner

Disability in Eighteenth-Century England (eBook, PDF)

Imagining Physical Impairment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a fascinating variety of sources, this book explores changing attitudes towards physical impairment in eighteenth-century England. It also uncovers the "hidden histories" of people with disabilities from different social backgrounds and examines how experiences of disability were shaped by class and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136304248
• Artikelnr.: 38263533

Autorenporträt

David M. Turner is Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: 1. Defining Disability and Deformity 2. Religious and
Medical Perspectives on Disability 3. Stereotypes and Cultural
Representation 4. Visibility and Visualisation: Seeing the Disabled 5.
Disabled Lives and Letters 6. Narratives of the Disabled Poor