Disability.

Author / Editor
Hsy, Jonathan.

Title
Disability.

Published
David Hillman and Ulrika Maude, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 24-40.

Description
Explores how disability studies have expanded to include consideration of relations between "embodiment and literary form," focusing on representations of deafness in the fifteenth-century Castilian "Arboleda de los enfermos" (Grove of the Infirm) of Teresa de Castagena, but including discussion of John Gower's autobiographical concern with blindness, Chaucer's depictions of bodily affliction in MkT (emphasizing stylistic concerns), Margery Kempe's "chronic illness or mental disability," and William Shakespeare's treatment of physical deformation in "Richard III."

Contributor
Hillman, David, ed.
Maude, Ulrika, ed.

Alternative Title
The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Style and Versification