Literature And Intellectual Disability In Early Modern England

Author : Alice Equestri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000424997

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Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England by Alice Equestri Pdf

Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays full attention to the intellectual difference of fools, rather than just their performativity: what does their total, partial, or even pretended ‘irrationality’ entail in terms of non-standard psychology or behaviour, and others’ perception of them? Is it possible to offer a close contextualised examination of the meaning of folly in literature as a disability? And how did real people having intellectual disabilities in the Renaissance period influence the representation and subjectivity of literary fools? Alice Equestri answers these and other questions by investigating the wide range of significant connections between the characters and Renaissance legal and medical knowledge as presented in legal records, dictionaries, handbooks, and texts of medicine, natural philosophy, and physiognomy. Furthermore, by bringing early modern folly in closer dialogue with the burgeoning fields of disability studies and disability theory, this study considers multiple sides of the argument in the historical disability experience: intellectual disability as a variation in the person and as a difference which both society and the individual construct or respond to. Early modern literary fools’ characterisation then emerges as stemming from either a realistic or also from a symbolical or rhetorical representation of intellectual disability.

Author : Leslie C. Dunn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030572082

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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama by Leslie C. Dunn Pdf

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own.

Author : David Houston Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814256430

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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England by David Houston Wood Pdf

While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, until very recently there has been little engagement with disability and disabled selves in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This omission is especially problematic insofar as representations of disabled bodies and minds serve as some of the signature features in English Renaissance texts. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England explores how recent conversations about difference in the period have either overlooked or misidentified disability representations. It also presents early modern disability studies as a new theoretical lens that can reanimate scholarly dialogue about human variation and early modern subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies. The ten essays in this collection range across genre, scope, and time, including examinations of real-life court dwarfs and dwarf narrators in Edmund Spenser's poetry; disability in Aphra Behn's assessment of gender and femininity; disability humor, Renaissance jest books, and cultural ideas about difference; madness in revenge tragedies; Spenserian allegory and impairment; the materiality of literary blindness; feigned disability in Jonsonian drama; political appropriation of Richard III in the postcommunist Czech Republic; the Book of Common Prayeras textual accommodation for cognitive disability; and Thomas Hobbes's and John Locke's inherently ableist conceptions of freedom and political citizenship.

Author : Lindsey Row-Heyveld
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319921358

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Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama by Lindsey Row-Heyveld Pdf

Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both lesser-known and canonical plays (by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, and others), Lindsey Row-Heyveld demonstrates why counterfeit disability proved so useful to early modern playwrights. Changing approaches to almsgiving in the English Reformation led to increasing concerns about feigned disability. The theater capitalized on those concerns, using the counterfeit-disability tradition to explore issues of charity, epistemology, and spectatorship. By illuminating this neglected tradition, this book fills an important gap in both disability history and literary studies, and explores how fears of counterfeit disability created a feedback loop of performance and suspicion. The result is the still-pervasive insistence that even genuinely disabled people must perform in order to, paradoxically, prove the authenticity of their impairments.

Author : Allison P. Hobgood,David Houston Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0814270131

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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England by Allison P. Hobgood,David Houston Wood Pdf

Author : Allison P. Hobgood
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132362

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Beholding Disability in Renaissance England by Allison P. Hobgood Pdf

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

Author : Susan Anderson,Liam Haydon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350028890

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance by Susan Anderson,Liam Haydon Pdf

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, corporate, and legal records discussed in the chapters of this volume. These chapters provide an interdisciplinary overview of the configurations of bodies, minds and collectives that have left evidence of some of the ways that normativity and its challengers interacted in the Renaissance. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

Author : Erika D'Souza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000774283

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Private Honour and Noble Masculine Image in Early Modern England by Erika D'Souza Pdf

Robert Sidney, the first Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), serves as an exemplar of an Elizabethan nobleman who had in his collection a body of work pertinent to the subject of masculine honour in the private realm. Understanding the nuances and evolution of the term private honour as it is represented in Sidney’s artefacts, as well as in the public discourse of the era, is the work and contribution of this book. The permeability between the private and public spheres led to an emergence of new forms of masculine representation. In a time when manhood was intertwined with militaristic qualities (such as courage, strength and fortitude), my investigation shows that in the domestic sphere, a gentler version of masculinity, encouraging humility, constancy and modesty, was fostered amongst the nobility. While worries of effeminacy certainly existed, there also was a strong discourse that encourage men to adopt so-called feminine virtues within the private sphere.

Author : Jennifer Summit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226781723

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Memory's Library by Jennifer Summit Pdf

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

Author : Patrick McDonagh,C. F. Goodey,Tim Stainton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526125330

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Intellectual disability by Patrick McDonagh,C. F. Goodey,Tim Stainton Pdf

This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. The collection is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.

Author : Simon Jarrett
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789143027

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Those They Called Idiots by Simon Jarrett Pdf

Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.

Author : Marie H. Loughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000539707

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Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent by Marie H. Loughlin Pdf

Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other genealogical concepts to talk about authorship, family, selfhood, and memory. In turn, both Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth also shaped their works in relation to the ways in which writers within their familial communities and literary coteries constructed them as Sidneys, heirs, descendants, and future ancestors, in genres ranging from the patronage dedication and pastoral eclogue to mythographic genealogia and georgic poetry. In the intersection of ancestry, death, sexuality, and reproduction, the book contends that Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth develop their authorship within the simultaneous rigidity and flexibility of their world’s genealogical discourses.

Author : Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351855457

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Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind by Isabel Jaén,Julien Jacques Simon Pdf

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andrés Laguna, Andrés Velásquez, Marsilio Ficino, and Gómez Pereira. The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantes’s works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind.

Author : Clare Barker,Stuart Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107087828

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability by Clare Barker,Stuart Murray Pdf

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0719096375

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Fools and Idiots? by Irina Metzler Pdf

"... The book demolishes a number of historiographic myths and stereotypes surrounding intellectual disability in the Middle Ages and suggests new insights with regard to 'fools', jesters and 'idiots'.