
Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922 (Hardback)
Mark Mossman (author)
£79.99
Hardback
188 Pages
Published: 21/08/2009
Published: 21/08/2009
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.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230574656
Number of pages: 188
Weight: 454 g
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
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"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
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