The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Introduction : On reading disability in literature ...1 Part 1 Across literatures 2 Monsters, saints and sinners: Disability in medieval literature ...17 3 Early modern literature and disability studies ...32 4 Disability and deformity : Function impairment and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century ...47 5 Embodying affliction in nineteenth century fiction ...62 6 Paralyzed modernities and biofutures : Bodies and minds in modern literature ...74 7 The ambiguities of inclusion : Disability in contemporary literature ...90 8 Radiant affliction : Disability Narratives in postcolonial literature ...104 Part II Across critical methods 9 Disability and the edges of intersectionality ...123 10 The world making potential of contemporary crip/ queer ...139 11 Race and disability in us literature ...155 12 Disability and women`s wrong ...170 13 Disability in gentre fiction ...185 14 Signifing selves : Disability and life writing ...199 15 Disability rhetories ...212 16Literary disability culture imaginations at work : an afterword ...227