Abstract
Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Olive Moore, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, J. M. Synge, Florence Barclay, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Through readings of this wide range of texts and with chapters focusing on mobility impairments, deafness, blindness, and deformity, the study reveals both modernism's skepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, "normal" bodies.
Date of this Version
2016
Recommended Citation
Linett, Maren, "Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature" (2016). Department of English Faculty Publications. Paper 21.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/englpubs/21
Comments
This is the EPUB file of Linett, M. (2016). Bodies of modernism: Physical disability in transatlantic modernist literature. University of Michigan Press.
Published CC-BY-NC, it's also available from the publisher at DOI: 10.3998/mpub.8432101.