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Writing disability : a critical history / Sara Newman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Disability in societyPublisher: Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781935049784
  • 193504978X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.9/08 23
LOC classification:
  • HV1568 .N494 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Disability and life writing -- Ancient sources: outcasts, oracles, and old age -- Medieval voices: sins, salvation, and the female body -- Early modern era: reenacting reform -- The long eighteenth century: reason and logic in an enlightened age -- The nineteenth century: insanity and asylums -- The early twentieth century: Helen Keller and the public reception of disability -- The twentieth century: military, biomedical and personal perspectives -- Into the twenty-first century: presence in the digital age -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.
Summary: "What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history--from ancient Greece to the present day--to reveal the interplay of dynamics that have shaped both personal and societal conceptions of mental and physical difference."-- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Disability and life writing -- Ancient sources: outcasts, oracles, and old age -- Medieval voices: sins, salvation, and the female body -- Early modern era: reenacting reform -- The long eighteenth century: reason and logic in an enlightened age -- The nineteenth century: insanity and asylums -- The early twentieth century: Helen Keller and the public reception of disability -- The twentieth century: military, biomedical and personal perspectives -- Into the twenty-first century: presence in the digital age -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book.

"What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history--from ancient Greece to the present day--to reveal the interplay of dynamics that have shaped both personal and societal conceptions of mental and physical difference."-- Publisher's website.

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