Description
This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.
About the Author
Essaka Joshua is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Pygmalion and Galatea (2001) and The Romantics and the May Day Tradition (2007). She won the Tyler Rigg Award for Disability Studies Scholarship in Literature and Literary Analysis in 2012.
Reviews
'Joshua uses writing about disability and disability theory to bring a new perspective to her analysis of these texts. As a result, this is an important contribution to literary criticism of the Romantic era. There is a larger historical significance too in her careful reading of the nuance of language and the evolution of terminology we use in our discussions of disability history.' Rosamund Oates, H-Disability
'Joshua's book demonstrates the need for scholars studying topics as wide-ranging as Jacobin politics and novels, proto-feminist writing, the Romantic encounter poem, aesthetics, the marriage plot, and the gothic to develop and account for historically specific concepts of pre-disability.' Corey Goergen, The Wordsworth Circle
Book Information
ISBN 9781108799171
Author Essaka Joshua
Format Paperback
Page Count 318
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 465g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm