| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The corpus of the madwoman : toward a feminist disability studies theory of embodiment and mental illness / Elizabeth J. Donaldson -- The blindman in the classic : feminisms, ocularcentrism, and Jane Eyre / David Bolt -- "On the spectrum" : rereading contact and affect in Jane Eyre / Julia Miele Rodas -- From India-rubber back to flesh : a reevaluation of male embodiment in Jane Eyre / Margaret Rose Torrell -- From custodial care to caring labor : the discourse of who cares in Jane Eyre / D. Christopher Gabbard -- "I began to see" : Biblical models of disability in Jane Eyre / Essaka Joshua -- Illness, disability, and recognition in Jane Eyre / Susannah B. Mintz -- Visions of Rochester : screening desire and disability in Jane Eyre / Martha Stoddard Holmes |
| Summary |
This breakthrough volume of critical essays on Jane Eyre from a disability perspective provides fresh insight into Charlotte Bronte's classic novel from a vantage point that is of growing academic and cultural importance. Contributors include many of the preeminent disability scholars publishing today, including a foreword by Lennard J. Davis. Though an indisputable classic and a landmark text for critical voices from feminism to Marxism to postcolonialism, until now, Jane Eyre has never yet been fully explored from a disability perspective. Customarily, impairment in the novel has been read unproblematically as loss, an undesired deviance from a condition of regularity vital to stable closure of the marriage plot. In fact, the most visible aspects of disability in the novel have traditionally been understood in rather rudimentary symbolic terms - the blindness of Rochester and the "madness" of Bertha apparently standing in for other aspects of identity. The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, resists this traditional reading of disability in the novel. Informed by a variety of perspectives - cultural studies, linguistics, and gender and film studies - the essays in this collection suggest surprising new interpretations, parsing the trope of the Blindman, investigating the embodiment of mental illness, and proposing an autistic identity for Jane Eyre. As the first volume of criticism dedicated to analyzing and theorizing the role of disability in a single literary text, The Madwoman and the Blindman is a model for how disability studies can open new conversation and critical thought within the literary canon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre -- Criticism, Textual
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre -- Criticism, Textual
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Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 Jane Eyre |
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Jane Eyre (Brontë, Charlotte) fast |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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Mental illness.
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Medicine in literature.
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Blindness.
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People with disabilities.
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Feminism.
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Mental Disorders
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Medicine in Literature
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Blindness
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Disabled Persons
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Feminism
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mental disorders.
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blindness.
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people with physical disabilities.
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handicapped.
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feminism.
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People with disabilities
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Mental illness
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Medicine in literature
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Feminism
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Blindness
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People with disabilities in literature
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Behinderung Motiv
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essays.
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Essays
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays.
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Essais.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bolt, David, 1966-
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Rodas, Julia Miele, 1965-
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Donaldson, Elizabeth J., 1965-
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| ISBN |
9780814270301 |
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0814270301 |
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