アイルランド文学における障害、表現と身体：1800-1922年 Disability, Representation, and the Body in Irish Writing, 1800-1922 （1ST）

Mossman, Mark

Palgrave Macmillan（2009/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 188 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230574656
• DDC分類 820.93561

基本説明

This book argues that the idea of Ireland was constructed and developed in the long nineteenth century through notions of physical and cognitive difference. The texts explored include the National Tales of Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, Dracula, Ulysses and The Dubliners.

Full Description

Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's 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.

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