Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity
Edited by Christian Laes, University of Manchester, UK
1. Introduction: How and Whether to Say 'Disability' in Ancient Greek and Latin, Christian Laes
2. Atypical Bodies: Extraordinary Body Treatment and Consideration, Caroline Husquin,
3. Mobility Impairment: Identifying Lived Experiences in Roman Italy, Emma-Jayne Graham
4. Chronic Pain and Illness: Pain and Meaning in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Laurien Zurhake
5. Blindness: Visual Impairments in Antiquity, Frederik Van den Abeele
6. Deafness: Sensory Impairment as Communication Disability, Past and Present, Ellen Adams
7. Speech: Lack of Language, Lack of Power: Social Aspects of the Discourse about Communication Disorders in the Graeco-Roman World, Peter Kruschwitz
8. Learning Difficulties: Intellectual Disability (= ID) in the Ancient Near East (ANE), Classical and Late Antiquity, Edgar Kellenberger
9. Mental Health Issues: Theory and Practice in the Ancient World, Jerry Toner

Volume 2: A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Edited by Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA, Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Ohio, USA, and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton
2. Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden
3. Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall
4. Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley
5. Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer
6. Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy
7. Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer
8. Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance
Edited by Susan Anderson, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Liam Haydon, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK
1. Atypical Bodies, Simone Chess
2. Mobility Impairment, Liam Haydon and Edmond Smith
3. Pain, Adleen Crapo
4. Blindness, Bianca Frohne
5. Deafness, Jennifer Nelson
6. Speech, Susan Anderson
7. Learning Difficulties, Emily Lathrop
8. Mental Health, Sonya Freeman Loftis

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by D. Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA and Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: Anomalous Bodies in the Eighteenth Century, Sara van den Berg
2. Mobility Impairment, David Turner
3. Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain and Illness in the Long Eighteenth Century, Isabella Lucy Cooper
4. Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren’t You Surprised I Can Speak?”, Kate E. Tunstall
5. Deafness: Deafness in the Age of Enlightenment, Kristin Lindgren
6. Speech: Speech and Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dwight Codr and Jared Richman
7. Learning Difficulties: Intellectual disability in the long eighteenth century, C. F. Goodey and Simon Jarrett
8. Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Madpeople in the Eighteenth Century, Allison Hobgood

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Joyce Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University San Marcos, USA
1. Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach
2. Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier
3. Chronic Pain and Illness: “The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind,” Maria Frawley
4. Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne
5. Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall
6. Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin
7. Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of “Idiocy” in the Nineteenth Century, Patrick
McDonagh
8. Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age
Edited by David T. Mitchell, George Washington University, USA and Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University, USA
1. Atypical Bodies, Bee Scherer
2. Mobility Impairment, Fiona Kumari Campbell
3. Chronic Pain, Theodora Danylevich
4. Blindness, Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko
5. Deafness, Sam Yates
6. Speech, Zephyrous Zahari
7. Learning difficulties, Owen Barden
8. Mental Health Issues, Anne McGuire

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Examines 2,500 years of disability from a wide range of perspectives, including history, literary studies, education and cultural studies.

About the Author

David Bolt is Professor and Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. His books include Changing Social Attitudes Towards Disability: Persepctives from Historical, Cultural and Educational Studies (2014) and, as co-editor, Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (2015).

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA. His book Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006) was awarded the MLA's Alan Bray Memorial Book Award and his other publications include, as co-editor with Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability (2012).