"Defects" Engendering the Modern Body

ISBN-10: 0472066986

ISBN-13: 9780472066988

Edition: 2000

Authors: Helen Elizabeth Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum

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Defects is a collection of essays that demonstrate that the emergence of sexual difference is inextricably woven with the emergence of a category of the human mind that is imagined and deformed, monstrous and ugly.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 1/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Helen Deutsch is a professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Felicity A. Nussbaum is a professor of English at the University of California-Los Angeles, the author of The Limits of the Human (2003), Torrid Zones (1995), and the editor of The Autobiographical Subject (1995), the latter two available from Johns Hopkins.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Disability


Dumb Virgins, Blind Ladies, and Eunuchs: Fictions of Defect



Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability in the Eighteenth Century



Paper, Picture, Sign: Conversations between the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and Others




Monstrosity


In the Bodyshop: Human Exhibition in Early Modern England



Making a Monster: Socializing Sexuality and the Monster of 1790



Monstrous Knowledge: Representing the National Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland



The Author as Monster: The Case of Dr. Johnson




Imperfections


Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the "Glass Revers'd" of Female Old Age



"Perfect" Flowers, Monstrous Women: Eighteenth-Century Botany and the Modern Gendered Subject



Obedient Faces: The Virtue of Deformity in Sarah Scott's Fiction



Afterword: Liberalism, Feminism, and Defect



Contributors


Index