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. INDICE: Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Introduction - Irish Studies Meets Disability Studies - Irish Girl Gone Wild - Sensation, Suffering, and Despair - States of Semiparalysis - Conclusion: States of Paralysis, a Sketch - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57465-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 21/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés