Writing Disability : : A Critical History / / Sara Newman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Newman, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Disability in Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Disability and Life Writing --; 2 Ancient Sources: Outcasts, Oracles, and Old Age --; 3 Medieval Voices: Sin, Salvation, and the Female Body --; 4 Early Modern Era: Reenacting Reform --; 5 The Long Eighteenth Century: Reason and Logic in an Enlightened Age --; 6 The Nineteenth Century: Insanity and Asylums --; 7 The Early Twentieth Century: Helen Keller and the Public Reception of Disability --; 8 The Twentieth Century: Military, Biomedical, and Personal Perspectives --; 9 Into the Twenty-First Century: Presence in the Digital Age --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781935049784; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781935049784
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sara Newman.

Explores personal narratives across a broad sweep of history to reveal the interplay of dynamics that have shaped both personal and societal conceptions of mental and physical disability.