... participation that reflect discussions of the consequences of mass democracy in To-day and To-morrow, with an emphasis on the related issues of mental capacity, education and intellectual disability and often framed as ethical questions about the value of life, or as scientific or pseudo...

... in cultural narratives of contagion. This narratological and rhetorical move is particularly salient for crip/queer characters of color who Gilman uses in The Crux to appeal to the logic of science through the emotional rhetoric of fear, and specifically, the fear of illness and of disability...

.... This chapter draws on ideas that I discuss in my article, ‘Maternal-Child Bonds and Resistive Embodiment in Sara Coleridge’s Writing’, Essays in Romanticism 29, no. 2 (November 2022): 169–85. In working with the concept of ‘bodymind’, I am indebted to twenty-first century disability scholar...

...This chapter charts the decline of the redemptive disability plot in the work of George Eliot and Henry James, arguing that the shift in the plotting of disability over the course of the late nineteenth century illuminates the period’s shifting attitudes to realism. Examining inherited plots...

...Aesthetics, embodiment and militarisation are particularly closely joined in representations of and reactions to the military body disabled as a result of war. Against militarised depictions of the vigour and glamour that military training and service bestows on bodies, experiences...

... A Kerameikos Laneri N lesions McIlvaine B K Panayotova Schepartz L A Agora Becker Howard Durkheim Emile ‘deviant’ mass burial ‘social deviancy’ Disability Inequality Ethnicity Intersectionality Ancient Greek Marginality Bioarchaeology The past lives of millions of ordinary people seem almost...

... of criminal responsibility Antisocial behaviour orders Disability discrimination Corporal punishment The joint report by the four UK Children’s Commissioners to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child provides a reality check for government and should dispel complacency The UN...

... homoerotic homosexual queer Scarry Elaine Schopenhauer Arthur Algeria Lloyd David Miller Tyrus Morin Emilie torture Walker Dominic Beckett Frank Code Christopher Joyce James Salisbury Laura disability Purcell Siobhán Davidson Arnold Dean Tim Moll Albert ablenationalism censorship...

...“Masculinity and Facial Disfigurement” examines Leni’s film through the lens of disability studies in film. This chapter offers a reading of The Man Who Laughs that addresses the creative liberties that Leni took when adapting the Hugo novel to the screen and that accounted...

...This chapter explores the extent to which the imbrication of the vocabularies of disability and gothic aesthetics in The Master of Petersburg informs the ethical commitments of Coetzee’s works. It argues that through the interlacing of gothic and disability themes, Coetzee refuses...

...This study explores the representations of disability and illness in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, offering a comprehensive analysis of both his early and late works. It examines the evolution of Coetzee's engagement with non-normative embodiment, revealing how his nuanced depictions of disability...

...(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues...

...Mapping both historical and contemporary configurations of the sexual body along with its functions and sensations, this book identifies disabling conceptions and constructions of pleasure while also searching for the possibility of claiming sexual pleasure as a constructive and politically...

...This chapter investigates how discourses on disability may assist the reconsideration of Deleuze’s understanding of sexual pleasure. Deleuze critiques the hierarchal organisation of bodies and their facialisation through social, political and gendered functions, and yet, a closer look...

...This essay describes what happened in the author’s Shakespeare classroom at Tokyo International University in the wake of a deadly stabbing attack at a residential care center for people with disabilities in nearby Sagamihara. Allison Hobgood discovers that the importance of Shakespeare...

... contention and discomfort. Taking seriously depictions of early modern violence as well as their connection to students’ lived experiences, this chapter provides strategies for using affective responses to support aesthetic and intellectual analysis. mental disability and mental illness post traumatic...

... of the novel’s intervention in the contemporary politics of mental ability and disability: it is always possible that 226 the reader will simply arrive at the conclusion that Kipps himself is ‘stupid’ and ‘limited’. As I have been arguing, Kipps’s stupidity is the wise and noble stupidity of the holy fool...

... on devotional form and Anglo-Catholic theology as well as the co-authors' correspondence with their Catholic friends and mentors. By drawing upon recent insights from disability studies, as well as previous claims that Michael Field’s ongoing re-visionary projects possess qualities we today call both queer...