Writing Disability : : A Critical History /

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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Newman, Sara,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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