Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing

1800–1922

• Author(s): Mark Mossman,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 188
• ISBN_10: 023025067X
  ISBN_13: 9780230250673
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies.