A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

D. Christopher Gabbard is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida, USA. He is the author of A Life Beyond Reason and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA. She is author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, The Disabled Detective and is co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

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Series Preface

Introduction, Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA and Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA

Ch 1: Atypical Bodies: Anomalous Bodies in the Eighteenth Century, Sara van den Berg, Saint Louis University, USA

Ch. 2: Mobility Impairment, David Turner, Swansea University, UK

Ch. 3: Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain and Illness in the Long Eighteenth Century, Isabella Lucy Cooper, University of Maryland, USA

Ch. 4: Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren’t You Surprised I Can Speak?” Kate E. Tunstall, University of Oxford, UK

Ch 5: Deafness: Deafness in the Age of Enlightenment, Kristin Lindgren, Haverford College, USA

Ch. 6: Speech: Speech and Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dwight Codr, University of Connecticut, USA and Jared Richman, Colorado College, USA

Ch. 7: Learning Difficulties: Intellectual disability in the long eighteenth century, C. F. Goodey, University of Leicester, UK and Simon Jarrett, Birkbeck University, UK

Ch. 8: Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Madpeople in the Eighteenth Century, Allison Hobgood, Willamette University, USA

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