Foreword; Peter Kitson and Tom Shakespeare.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- 1. Introduction; Michael Bradshaw and Essaka Joshua.- 2. Picturesque Aesthetics: Theorising Deformity in the Romantic Era; Essaka Joshua.- 3. Disability, Sympathy, and Encounter in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798); Emily B. Stanback.- 4. ‘Psychological Curiosit[ies]’ from an ‘Intellectual Giant’: Coleridge, Disease, Disability, and Drugs; Corey Goergen.- 5. ‘In mental as in visual darkness lost’: Southey’s Songs for a Mad King'; David Chandler.- 6. Mary Robinson’s Paralysis and the Discourse of Disability; William D. Brewer.- 7. Blakean Wonder and the Unfallen Tharmas: Health, Wholeness, and Holarchy in The Four Zoas; Matt Lorenz.- 8. ‘An uneasy mind in an uneasy body’: Byron, Disability, Authorship, and Biography; Christine Kenyon Jones.- 9. Autistic Voice and Literary Architecture in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Julia Miele Rodas.- 10. A Hundred Tongues: George Darley’s Stammer; Jeremy Davies.- Index.-
"Disabling Romanticism, edited by Michael Bradshaw, is an outstanding piece of scholarship and contributes mightily to both disability studies in the Humanities and studies in Romanticism. The scrutiny brought to both canonical and under-appreciated Romantic texts is thorough and penetrating; the quality of writing in every chapter is superb; and the arguments presented are persuasive and compelling. Disabling Romanticism builds on and extends in a significant way the work of Helen Deutsch, Lennard Davis, David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder, and Chris Mounsey, among others." (Chris Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA)
Michael Bradshaw is Professor of English at Edge Hill University, UK. He has published extensively on Romanticism, including Keats, the Shelleys, The London Magazine, Romantic generations, and Romantic fragment poems; publications include Resurrection Songs: the Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2001), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (2007).
“I read Michael Bradshaw’s edited collection Disabling Romanticism:
Body, Mind, and Text with great interest. … it has only nine
articles, every one of them is substantive and useful.” (Studies in
English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 57 (4), 2017)
“Michael Bradshaw’s Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text is
a fine collection. … This volume is an excellent and compelling
introduction to this material. … I would place this as one of the
most valuable volumes to have appeared this year.” (SEL Studies in
English Literature, Vol. 57 (3), 2017) “It is also one of the
first books devoted to disability studies and British Romanticism,
which is surprising when one considers the wealth of material on
this topic for scholars working in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. … the wide range of its essays show the
importance of both physical and cognitive disability to British
Romanticism. I hope this book will stimulate more sustained work on
its topic, including monographs on Romanticism from the perspective
of disability studies.” (Karen Bourrier, Review 19, nbol-19.org,
2017)
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