Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world / Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.
Godden, Richard H., editor.; Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
2019
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Title Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern world / Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.
ISBN 9783030254582 (electronic book)
3030254585 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 352 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-25 doi
Call Number HV1552
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.409
Summary This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "disability" and "monstrosity" in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed "the extraordinary body" is labeled a "monster." This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 4, 2019).
Added Author Godden, Richard H., editor.
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
Series New Middle Ages.
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Section I: Introduction
1. Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman
Section II: Discourses of Bodily Difference
2. From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault
3. "If in Other Respects He Appears to be Effectively Human": Defining Monstrosity in Medieval English Law
4. (Dis)functional Faces: Signs of the Monstrous?
5. Grendel and Goliath: Monstrous Superability and Disability in the Old English Corpus
6. E(race)ing the Future: Imagined Medieval Reproductive Possibilities and the Monstrosity of Power
Section III: Dis/Identifying the Other
7. "Blob Child" Revisited: Conflations of Monstrosity, Disability, and Race in King of Tars
8. Attending to "Beasts Irrational" in Gowers Visio Anglie
9. How a Monster Means: The Significance of Bodily Difference in the Christopher Cynocephalus Tradition
10. Lycanthropy and Lunacy: Cognitive Disability in The Duchess of Malfi
11. Eschatology for Cannibals: A System of Aberrance in the Old English Andreas
12. The Monstrous Womb of Early Modern Midwifery Manuals
Section IV: Queer Couplings
13. Blindness and Posthuman Sexuality in Paradise Lost
14. Dwelling Underground in The Book of John Mandeville: Monstrosity, Disability, Ecology
Section V: Coda
15. Muteness and Disembodied Difference: Three Case Studies.

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