Abstract
This introduction briefly introduces literary disability studies and crip methodology. After informing readers about a few key concepts of disability studies and giving some examples of modernist writers’ use of disability metaphors, it raises questions about how disability inflects modernist themes and modernist form. It then offers synopses of the nine articles in the special issue, articles that treat a range of authors from the early to mid-twentieth century. The essays engage with literary theory, various early twentieth-century historical contexts, and issues of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and class.
Date of this Version
2019
Recommended Citation
Linett, Maren, "Cripping Modernism: An Introduction" (2019). Department of English Faculty Publications. Paper 12.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/englpubs/12
Comments
This is the author-accepted manuscript of Linett, M. (2019). Cripping Modernism: An Introduction. MFS Modern Fiction Studies 65(1), 1-11. Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press, the version of record is available at DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2019.0000.