ALICE HALL currently works at Université Paris Diderot and she recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. She holds an MPhil in Criticism and Culture and a PhD in Contemporary Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Work of Toni Morrison Dialectics of Dependency: Aging and Disability in J.M.Coetzee's Later Writing Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body' Notes Bibliography Index

'This book is one of the best literary critical accounts I have read in a long time. Hall writes with great clarity and addresses the complexity of 'disability' in a highly intelligent and nuanced manner. Her insights into the representation of disability in the fiction of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee are first rate.' - Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham, UK