| Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature Contributor(s): Linett, Maren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472073311 ISBN-13: 9780472073313 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $94.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | People With Disabilities |
| Dewey: 823.009 |
| LCCN: 2016023982 |
| Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.24 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |