The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability

Alice Hall teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has previously worked at the University of Nottingham and the University of Paris (III and VII). Alice is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012) and Literature and Disability: Contemporary Critical Thought (2015).

Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability

Alice Hall

Part I: New Directions in the Field






Disability in Indigenous Literature
Siobhan Senier




Disability in Black Speculative Fiction
Sami Schalk




t4t: Towards a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism
Cameron Awkward-Rich




Challenging Photocentrism: Writing Signs and Bilingual Deaf Literatures
Kristen Harmon




"Here There Be Monsters": Mapping Novel Representations of the Relationship between Disability and Monstrosity in Recent Graphic Narratives and Comic Books
Chris Foss




Spectrality, Strangeness, and Stigmaphilia: Gothic and Critical Disability Studies
Sara Wasson




Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers
Petra Kuppers

Part II: Novels and Short Stories




From "Changelings" to "Libtards": Intellectual Disability in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond
D. Christopher Gabbard




Crip Gothic: Affiliations of Disability and Queerness in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Jason S. Farr




"Of wonderful use to everyone": Disability and the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Clare Walker Gore




Afro-modernism and Black Disability Studies
Jess Waggoner




"What’s the Matter with Him?": Intellectual Disability, Jewishness, and Stereotype in Bernard Malamud’s "Idiots First"
Howard Sklar




Metaphorical Medicine: Disability in Anglophone Indian Fiction
Stephanie Yorke




Disability and Contemporary Literature: Antinormative Narratives of Embodiment
David T. Mitchell

Part III: Poetry




Poet and Beggar: Edmund White’s Blindness
Vanessa Warne




Deafness and Modernism
Rebecca Sanchez




The "Fury of Loving Joyfully": Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations
Elizabeth Leake




Getting There: Pain Poetics and Canadian Literature
Shane Neilson




Disability in Contemporary Poetry
Johanna Emeney




Disability Poetry: Testing the Waters of Definition
Michael Northen

Part IV: Drama




Canadian Disability Dramaturgies
Kirsty Johnston




Disability and the American Stage Musical
Samuel Yates




Of Scapegoats and Men: Shane Meadow’s Dead Man’s Shoes and the Politics of Learning Disability
Anna Harpin




Disability, Drama, and the Problem of Intersectional Invisibility
Ann M. Fox




Puppets, Players and the Poetics of Vulnerability: Hijinx’s Meet Fred and New Directions in the Theatres of Learning Disability
Matt Hargrave

Part V: Life Writing




Sex, Death, and the Welfare Check: Rhythms of Disability and Sexuality in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives
Leon J. Hilton




Disability Narrative, Embodied Aesthetics and Cross-Media Arts
Stella Bolaki




A Grammar of Touch: Interdependencies of Person, Place, Thing
Shannon Walters




Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability
Elizabeth J. Donaldson




Challenging the Neurotypical: Autism, Contemporary Literature, and Digital Textualities

Hannah Tweed