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Monstrous kinds : body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability / Elizabeth B. Bearden

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Bearden, Elizabeth B., 1975-
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Introduction -- The Ideal Monster: Disability, Courtliness, and Civilizing Body Talk -- Before Normal, There Was Natural: John Bulwer, Disability, and Natural Signing in England and Beyond -- Moctezuma's Zoo or Cortés's Courtiers: Geographies of Disability in Mexica and European Courts -- "Signing in the Seraglio": Global Disability in European Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Court -- "Unnaturall Order": Conjoined Twins and Monstrous Narration in the Wonder Book.
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9780472131129 hardcover alkaline paper
0472131125 hardcover alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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