Writing Disability : : A Critical History / / 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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Disability in Society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |