Literature and Disability

by Alice Hall

Book Overview

Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041563220X
• ISBN13: 9780415632201
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"