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The Roman Community at Table during the Principate - Softcover

Donahue, John

 
9780472036950: The Roman Community at Table during the Principate
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472036955 ISBN 13: 9780472036950
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2017

Synopsis

Body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability. Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning. Understanding how early modern writers approached disability not only provides more accurate genealogies of disability, but also helps nuance current aesthetic and theoretical disability formulations. The book analyzes the cultural valences of early modern disability across a broad national and chronological span, attending to the specific bodily, spatial, and aesthetic systems that contributed to early modern literary representations of disability. The cross section of texts (including conduct books and treatises, travel writing and wonder books) is comparative, putting canonical European authors such as Castiglione into dialogue with transatlantic and Anglo-Ottoman literary exchange. Bearden questions grand narratives that convey a progression of disability from supernatural marvel to medical specimen, suggesting that, instead, these categories coexist and intersect.

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About the Author

John F. Donahue is Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472036955
ISBN 13 
9780472036950
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
394