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Remembrance and Remediation: Mediating Disability and Literary Tourism in the Romantic Archive
- Studies in Romanticism
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2020
- pp. 85-108
- 10.1353/srm.2020.0007
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Abstract:
This article explores the circuits of remediation through which poems and embodied experiences of literary tourism can be productively read through disability studies. I read the work of Sophia Hyatt, who was deaf, and whose devotional poetry to Lord Byron traces a circuit around the poet's former home, Newstead Abbey during the 1820s, and throughout their subsequent remediation. Hyatt's representations of her experience deliberately walking in the footsteps of a famously disabled poet to whom she devoted her own creative powers bears witness to a differently embodied experience of Byron's legacy, through an alternative archival practice of embodied repetition.