Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic

by Michael Davidson

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period marked by progressive reforms in health, labor, and welfare. Readings of texts by Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198832818
• ISBN13: 9780198832812
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"