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100 1 a| Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie.=| ^A1013046;

245 10 a| Extraordinary bodies :b| figuring physical disability in American culture and literature /c| Rosemarie Garland Thomson.;

300 a| x, 200 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.;

505 2 a| The cultural work of American freak shows, 1835-1940. The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body.;

505 2 a| Benevolent maternalism and the disabled women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps. The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner.;

505 2 a| Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde. Revising Black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.;

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650 0 a| American fictiony| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A22044;

650 0 a| People with disabilities in literature.=| ^A189247;

650 0 a| Human body in literature.=| ^A133780;

650 0 a| Human bodyx| Social aspects.=| ^A80715;

650 0 a| People with disabilitiesx| Social conditions.=| ^A1006447;

650 0 a| Women in literature.=| ^A27561;

650 0 a| Popular culturez| United Statesx| History.=| ^A344897;

650 0 a| Sideshowsz| United Statesx| History.=| ^A604746;

650 0 a| Feminism and literaturez| United States.=| ^A201068;

650 12 a| Social Perceptionz| United States.=| ^A918855;

650 12 a| Literature, Modernx| psychologyz| United States.=| ^A929707;

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Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.

Author/creator	Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Columbia University Press, ©1997.
Description	x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism. American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. People with disabilities in literature. Human body in literature. Human body--Social aspects. People with disabilities--Social conditions. Women in literature. Popular culture--United States. --History. Sideshows--United States. --History. Feminism and literature--United States. Social Perception--United States. Literature, Modern--psychology. --United States. People with disabilities--Social aspects.

Partial contents	The cultural work of American freak shows, 1835-1940. The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body.
Partial contents	Benevolent maternalism and the disabled women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps. The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner.
Partial contents	Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde. Revising Black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.
Local note	Little-303870--305131009507Y
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.
LCCN	96021998
ISBN	0231105169 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN	0231105177 (paper : acid-free paper)

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