Contemporary Literature and the Body

Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction and Literature and Disability, and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability. She co-founded the MA in Medical Humanities at York and convenes 'The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture' module.

• 1.IntroductionTHEMES2.Gender and Feminism3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives4.Disability5.Illness and Health6.AgeingCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES7.Affect8.Human Rights9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies10.Digital Humanities and the PosthumanFurther reading

As with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate