| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in modern British history ; 8 |
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Routledge studies in modern British history ; 8.
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| Contents |
List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Defining disability and deformity -- Religious and medical perspectives on disability -- Stereotypes and cultural representation -- Visibility and visualisation : seeing the disabled -- Disabled lives and letters -- Narratives of the disabled poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what constituted 'disability' in eighteenth-century culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do their stories tell us about the social and cultural contexts of disability, and in what ways were these narratives and experiences shaped by class and gender? In order to answer these questions, the book explores the languages of disability, the relationship between religious and medical discourses of disability, and analyzes depictions of people with disabilities in popular culture, art, and the media. It also uncovers the 'hidden histories' of disabled men and women themselves drawing on elite letters and autobiographies, Poor Law documents and criminal court records |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Health attitudes.
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Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
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Disabled Persons -- history
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Attitude to Health
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History, 18th Century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
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Medicine
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Health attitudes
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People with disabilities
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Behinderung
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Behinderung.
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| SUBJECT |
England |
| Subject |
Great Britain
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England
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Grossbritannien.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011048306 |
| ISBN |
9780203117545 |
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0203117549 |
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9781136304248 |
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113630424X |
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9781136304194 |
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1136304193 |
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9781136304231 |
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1136304231 |
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9781138107588 |
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1138107581 |
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1283585642 |
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9781283585644 |
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9786613898098 |
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6613898090 |
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