Monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman in the medieval and early modern world / Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

xxvii, 352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-344) and index.

Introduction: Embodied difference: monstrosity, disability, and the posthuman / Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman -- From monstrosity to postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault / Kathleen Perry Long -- "If in other respects he appears to be effectively human": defining monstrosity in Medieval English law / Eliza Buhrer -- (Dis)functional faces: signs of the monstrous? / Emily Cock and Patricia Skinner -- Grendel and Goliath: monstrous superability and disability in the Old English corpus / Karen Bruce Wallace -- E(race)ing the future: imagined Medieval reproductive possibilities and the monstrosity of power / Shyama Rajendran -- "Blob child" revisited: conflations of monstrosity, disability, and race in King of Tars / Molly Lewis -- Attending to "beasts irrational" and Gower's Visio Anglie / Haylie Swenson -- How a monster means: the significance of bodily difference in Christopher Cynocephalus tradition / Spencer J. Weinreich -- Lycanthrophy and lunacy: cognitive disability in The Duchess of Malfi / Sonya Freeman Loftis -- Eschatology for cannibals: a system of aberrance in the Old English Andreas / Leah Pope Parker -- The monstrous womb of early modern midwifery manuals / Melissa Hull Geil -- Blindness and posthuman sexuality in Paradise Lost / John S. Garrison -- Dwelling underground in The Book of John Mandeville: monstrosity, disability, ecology / Alan S. Montroso -- Coda: Muteness and disembodied difference: three case studies / Karl Steel.