Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

Martha Stoddard Holmes is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos, USA.Joyce L. Huff is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.

• List of IllustrationNotes of ContributorsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Negotiating Normalcy in the Long Nineteenth Century, Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, USAChapter 1: Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary, CanadaChapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: “The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind,” Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USAChapter 4: Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba, CanadaChapter 5: Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield, UK Chapter 6: Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin, MacEwan University, CanadaChapter 7: Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of “Idiocy” in the Nineteenth Century, PatrickMcDonagh, Concordia University, CanadaChapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, USANotesBibliographyIndex

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