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Defects : engendering the modern body / Helen Deutsch and Felicity Nussbaum, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CorporealitiesPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.Description: x, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0472066986 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV1568.25.G7 D44 2000
Contents:
pt. 1. Disability -- Dumb Virgins, Blind Ladies, and Eunuchs: Fictions of Defect / Felicity Nussbaum -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability in the Eighteenth Century / Lennard J. Davis -- Paper, Picture, Sign: Conversations between the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and Others / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- pt. 2. Monstrosity -- In the Bodyshop: Human Exhibition in Early Modern England / Stephen Pender -- Making a Monster: Socializing Sexuality and the Monster of 1790 / Barbara M. Benedict -- Monstrous Knowledge: Representing the National Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Joel Reed -- The Author as Monster: The Case of Dr. Johnson / Helen Deutsch -- pt. 3. Imperfections -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the "Glass Revers'd" of Female Old Age / Jill Campbell -- "Perfect" Flowers, Monstrous Women: Eighteenth-Century Botany and the Modern Gendered Subject / Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook -- Obedient Faces: The Virtue of Deformity in Sarah Scott's Fiction / Robert W. Jones -- Afterword: Liberalism, Feminism, and Defect / Cora Kaplan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

pt. 1. Disability -- Dumb Virgins, Blind Ladies, and Eunuchs: Fictions of Defect / Felicity Nussbaum -- Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability in the Eighteenth Century / Lennard J. Davis -- Paper, Picture, Sign: Conversations between the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and Others / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- pt. 2. Monstrosity -- In the Bodyshop: Human Exhibition in Early Modern England / Stephen Pender -- Making a Monster: Socializing Sexuality and the Monster of 1790 / Barbara M. Benedict -- Monstrous Knowledge: Representing the National Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Joel Reed -- The Author as Monster: The Case of Dr. Johnson / Helen Deutsch -- pt. 3. Imperfections -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the "Glass Revers'd" of Female Old Age / Jill Campbell -- "Perfect" Flowers, Monstrous Women: Eighteenth-Century Botany and the Modern Gendered Subject / Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook -- Obedient Faces: The Virtue of Deformity in Sarah Scott's Fiction / Robert W. Jones -- Afterword: Liberalism, Feminism, and Defect / Cora Kaplan.