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Subject(s)

• Disabilities in literature [Browse]
• European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Corporealities [More in this series]
• Corporealities: discourses of disability [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• The Ideal Monster: Disability, Courtliness, and Civilizing Body Talk
• Before Normal, There Was Natural: John Bulwer, Disability, and Natural Signing in England and Beyond
• Moctezuma's Zoo or Cortés's Courtiers: Geographies of Disability in Mexica and European Courts
• "Signing in the Seraglio": Global Disability in European Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Court
• "Unnaturall Order": Conjoined Twins and Monstrous Narration in the Wonder Book.

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ISBN

• 9780472131129 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 0472131125 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018035624

OCLC

1055264322

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