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Woeful Afflictions

Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512807893
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Woeful Afflictions written by Mary Klages and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of representations of disability, from popular fiction to the reports of institutions established for the education and rehabilitation of disabled people, the equation of disability and sentimentality served a variety of social functions, from ensuring the continued existence of a sympathetic sensibility in a hard-hearted, market-driven world, to asserting the selfhood and equality of disabled adults. Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals from the 1830s through the 1890s in the United States. Woeful Afflictions combines contemporary scholarship on sentimentalism with the most recent works on the cultural meanings of disability to argue that sentimentalism, with its emphasis on creating emotional identifications between texts and readers, both reinforces existing associations between disability and otherness and works to rewrite those associations in portraying disabled people, in their emotional capacities, as no different from the ablebodied. This book will interest anyone concerned with disability studies and the social construction of the body, with the history of education and of public institutional care in the United States, and with autobiographical writings.

Telethons

Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190262095
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Telethons written by Paul K. Longmore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movie stars, entertainers, game-show hosts, jugglers, plate-spinners, gospel choirs, corporate executives posing with over-sized checks, household name-brand products, smiling children in leg braces-all were fixtures of the phenomenon that defined American culture in the second half of the twentieth century: the telethon. Hundreds of millions watched these weekend-long variety shows that raised billions of dollars for disability-related charities. Drawing on over two decades of in-depth research, Telethons trenchantly explores the complexity underneath the campy spectacles. At its center are the disabled children, who, thanks to a particular kind of historical-cultural marginalization, turned out to be ideal tools for promoting corporate interests, privatized healthcare, and class status. Offering a public message about helping these unfortunate victims, telethons perpetuated a misleading image of people with disabilities as helpless, passive, apolitical members of American society. Paul K. Longmore's revelatory chronicle shows how these images in fact helped major corporations increase their bottom lines, while filling gaps in the strange public-private hybrid U.S. health insurance system. Only once disabled people pushed back in public protests did the broader implications for all Americans become clear. Mining insights from great thinkers such as Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Alexis de Tocqueville, along with contemporary cultural figures like Jerry Lewis, Ralph Nader, and several disability rights activists, Telethons offers a provocative meditation on big business, American government, popular culture, Cold War values, and "activism" both narrowly and broadly defined. As highly popular entertainment, telethons schooled Americans about how to feel about their bodies, fitness, health, and appropriate ways to interact with people whose bodies did not fit norms determined by advertisers. The programs also taught them about when to weep and how to cure guilt through "conspicuous contribution." Longmore's astute observations about psychology, economics, and society reveal how writing off telethons as kitsch and irrelevant has enabled many individual attitudes, corporate practices, and government policies to go unquestioned. Ultimately, Telethons reveals the passion, humanity, resistance, and triumph that were not center-stage on these popular telecasts by offering insights into the U.S. disability movement past and present.

Fictions of Affliction

Author : Martha Stoddard Holmes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025961
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Affliction written by Martha Stoddard Holmes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. The first book of its kind, Fictions of Affliction contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others.

Woeful Afflictions

Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Woeful Afflictions written by Mary Klages and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in general, and blindness in particular, in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals from the 1830s through the 1890s.

The Manliest Man

Author : James W. Trent
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558499598
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Manliest Man written by James W. Trent and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," he counted among his friends Senator Charles Summer, public school advocate Horace Mann, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A committed reformer, Howe believed in the perfectibility of human beings and spoke out in favor of progressive services for disabled Americans. He embraced a notion of manliness that included heroism under fire but also compassion for the underdog and the oppressed. Though hardly a man without flaws and failures, he nevertheless represented the optimism that characterized much of antebellum American reform. The first full-length biography of Howe in more than fifty years, The Manliest Man offers an original view of his personal life, his association with social causes of his time, and his efforts to shape those causes in ways that allowed for the greater inclusion of devalued people in the mainstream of American life. Book jacket.

Religion and Illness

Author : Annette Weissenrieder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498293514
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Illness written by Annette Weissenrieder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the relevant conceptualities and terminologies marking the coupling of religion and medical interpretations of illness in different religions such as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity? How do religious orientations influence courses of a disease? How do experiences of illness change images of the divine in late modernity? This collection of essays from a symposium held at the International Research Institute of the University of Heidelberg examines connections between religious and medical interpretations of illness in different cultures in order to suggest criteria for coupling religion and medicine in ways that enhance rather than diminish life. By discerning which relationships between religion and medicine appear to be beneficial and which harmful, the book as a whole proposes criteria that are not limited to a single scientific approach, cultural tradition, or time period (such as the present). The book has four parts, which deal with Islamic medicine, Chinese medicine, and the relationship between religion and medicine in both Jewish and Christian traditions. All chapters cover from antiquity to the present.

The Knickerbocker

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Knickerbocker written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dying to be English

Author : Kelly McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317323106
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Dying to be English written by Kelly McGuire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.

United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Affective Geographies

Author : Paul Michael Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487536402
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Affective Geographies written by Paul Michael Johnson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean. Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’s texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’s writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes’s works constitute a literary longue durée, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.

The Yoke

Author : Hubert Wales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Yoke written by Hubert Wales and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects

Author : Institution of Naval Architects
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects written by Institution of Naval Architects and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Types of Womanhood. In four stories. By the author of “Ethel,” etc

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Types of Womanhood. In four stories. By the author of “Ethel,” etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Cultural Despair

Author : Fritz R. Stern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342690
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Despair written by Fritz R. Stern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.

Sydney Fielding

Author : Edwin Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Sydney Fielding written by Edwin Keene and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clad in Iron

Author : Howard J. Fuller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313345910
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Clad in Iron written by Howard J. Fuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.