Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Early Modern

Chapter 1: A Pre-History of Narrative Prosthesis

Chapter 2: Renaissance Historiography

Part 2: Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3: An Age of Enlightenment

Chapter 4: An Age of Satire

Part 3: Romantic

Chapter 5: Human Flourishing

Chapter 6: Approaching Normal

Part 4: Victorian

Chapter 7: Spectacular Metaphors

Chapter 8: Why Tonga Must Die

Part 5: Modernism/Postmodernism

Chapter 9: We Normals

Chapter 10: Destigmatizing Difference

Part 6: Contemporary

Chapter 11: Disability Autobiography

Chapter 12: The Coalitional Politics of Disability

About the Author

Fuson Wang is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he is currently the co-director of the Medical and Health Humanities Studies program. He has published widely in British Romantic literature, disability studies, and medical humanities.