Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-7

3. Irish Studies Meets Disability Studies

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   Pages 8-45

4. Irish Girl Gone Wild

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   Pages 46-80

5. Sensation, Suffering, and Despair

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   Pages 81-121

6. States of Semiparalysis

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   Pages 122-150

7. Conclusion: States of Paralysis, a Sketch

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   Pages 151-159

8. Back Matter

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Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies.

• disability
• poetry
• pornography
• state
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

"Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922 exposes the pervasive and the problematic dynamics of disability that have constituted representations of modern Ireland and Irishness, and to which any responsible critique must now attend." - New Hibernia Review

• Western Illinois University, USA

  Mark Mossman

MARK MOSSMAN is an Associate Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA. His research and teaching focuses on modern Irish and British literatures and disability studies. Previously published work includes essays in such journals as College English, Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, Postmodern Culture, European Romantic Review, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

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