Titlebook: Disabling Romanticism; Michael Bradshaw Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 British Romanticism.Romantic Litera

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,Disability, Sympathy, and Encounter in Wordsworth’s , (1798),y’. Stanback traces through the poems a theoretical stance akin to contemporary approaches to disability as a source of potential enrichment for individual and community. The poems also intuitively advance what Tobin Siebers terms ‘disability aesthetics’, a system in which ‘disability does not expre

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,‘Psychological Curiosit[ies]’ from an ‘Intellectual Giant’: Coleridge, Disease, Disability, and Drulen Deutsch’s concept of ‘symptomatic correspondences’, and models of medical rehabilitation described by disability theorists. This analysis demonstrates in Coleridge’s work a refusal to enter the safe, observational discourse of disease: his speakers embrace their own marginalised states, their il

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,Mary Robinson’s Paralysis and the Discourse of Disability,r actress and royal courtesan Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson began to suffer from progressive lower-limb paralysis. Brewer examines the contemporary reception of Robinson’s impairment within the context of the Romantic-era debate about how disability should be responded to and interpreted. Robinson’s obitu

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,‘An Uneasy Mind in an Uneasy Body’: Byron, Disability, Authorship, and Biography,ged grandeur and made his athletic prowess more striking. This chapter reconsiders the text of Byron’s body in relation to its various intertexts and commentators—most notably, of course, Byron himself—and reveals a complex and often contradictory set of writings about the symbolic value and lived e

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,A Hundred Tongues: George Darley’s Stammer,elong stammer has often seemed to justify reading his work as engaged in a poetics of failure and incapacity. Davies presents new evidence showing that for several crucial years of his career Darley believed that his stammer had been more or less resolved by the celebrated speech therapist John Bros

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