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

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

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Series:

Corporealities

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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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9780472131129 hardcover alkaline paper
0472131125 hardcover alkaline paper

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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