In this Book
- Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
summary
Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Olive Moore, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, J. M. Synge, Florence Barclay, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Through readings of this wide range of texts and with chapters focusing on mobility impairments, deafness, blindness, and deformity, the study reveals both modernism’s skepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, “normal” bodies.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- 1. Mobility and Sexuality
- pp. 19-54
- 2. Blindness and Intimacy
- pp. 55-84
- 5. Deformity and Modernist Form
- pp. 143-196
- Works Cited
- pp. 231-252
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472122486
Related ISBN(s)
9780472053315, 9780472073313
MARC Record
OCLC
965825461
Pages
267
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017