Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing 1800-1922

by Mossman, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780230574656
• ISBN10: 0230574653
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swifts pornographic poetry to Oscar Wildes famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies.

Author Biography

MARK MOSSMAN is an Associate Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on modern Irish and British literatures and disability studies. Previously published work includes essays in such journals as College English, Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, Postmodern Culture, European Romantic Review, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Introduction * Irish Studies Meets Disability Studies *
Irish Girl Gone Wild * Sensation, Suffering, and Despair * States of Semiparalysis * Conclusion: States of Paralysis, a Sketch * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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