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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

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    Chapter 1 Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman
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    Chapter 2 From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault
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    Chapter 3 “If in Other Respects He Appears to Be Effectively Human”: Defining Monstrosity in Medieval English Law
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    Chapter 4 (Dis)functional Faces: Signs of the Monstrous?
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    Chapter 5 Grendel and Goliath: Monstrous Superability and Disability in the Old English Corpus
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    Chapter 6 E(race)ing the Future: Imagined Medieval Reproductive Possibilities and the Monstrosity of Power
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    Chapter 7 “Blob Child” Revisited: Conflations of Monstrosity, Disability, and Race in King of Tars
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    Chapter 8 Attending to “Beasts Irrational” in Gower’s Visio Anglie
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    Chapter 9 How a Monster Means: The Significance of Bodily Difference in the Christopher Cynocephalus Tradition
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    Chapter 10 Lycanthropy and Lunacy: Cognitive Disability in The Duchess of Malfi
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    Chapter 11 Eschatology for Cannibals: A System of Aberrance in the Old English Andreas
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    Chapter 12 The Monstrous Womb of Early Modern Midwifery Manuals
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    Chapter 13 Blindness and Posthuman Sexuality in Paradise Lost
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    Chapter 14 Dwelling Underground in The Book of John Mandeville: Monstrosity, Disability, Ecology
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    Chapter 15 Muteness and Disembodied Difference: Three Case Studies
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Title
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2019
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-25458-2
ISBNs
978-3-03-025457-5, 978-3-03-025458-2
Editors

Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman

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Country Count As %
Unknown 19 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Researcher 2 11%
Professor 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 7 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 9 47%
Social Sciences 2 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Unknown 7 37%