Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.

• Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9783030254605
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.12.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman