The madwoman and the blindman : Jane Eyre, discourse, disability / edited by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson ; with a foreword by Lennard J. Davis.

Date:
[2012]
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2012]

Physical description

xiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    CU.41.AA8
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  • 9780814211960
  • 0814211968
  • 9780814292976
  • 0814292976