Mossman, Mark: Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing (gebundenes Buch)

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.

Irish literature is widely studied in the UK, the US, Europe and Australia Original and ambitious - the first book to apply concepts from disability studies to the criticism of Irish literature Argues that the invention and construction of modern Ireland parallels the invention and construction of the modern disabled body Articulates an 'Irish disability studies', offering new readings of such canonical figures as Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth and Bram StokerRedefines disability studies by taking this emerging field out of the realm of pure theory and applying it to a specific cultural field

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.