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.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-25 doi
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Godden, Richard H., editor.
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
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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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