Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature PDF
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Revised Pages Bodies of Modernism Revised Pages Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series editors: David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder Recent Titles Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature by Maren Tova Linett War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence by Anne McGuire The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment by David T. Mitchell with Sharon L. Snyder Foucault and the Government of Disability, Enlarged and Revised Edition by Shelley Tremain, editor The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel by Karen Bourrier American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History by Jenell Johnson Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability by George McKay The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing by David Bolt Disabled Veterans in History by David A. Gerber, editor Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Siebers Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability by Edward Wheatley Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body by Michael Davidson The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness by Terry Rowden Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture by Martha Stoddard Holmes Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture by Carol Poore Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry by Bradley Lewis A complete list of titles in the series can be found at www.press.umich.edu Revised Pages Bodies of Modernism R Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature Maren Tova Linett University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Revised Pages Copyright © 2017 by Maren Tova Linett All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid- free paper 2020 2019 2018 2017 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication data has been applied for. ISBN 978-0 - 472- 07331- 3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0 -4 72-0 5331-5 (paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978- 0- 472- 12248- 6 (e- book) Revised Pages For Ruth and Lev Revised Pages Revised Pages Acknowledgments R I first became aware of the field of disability studies in my penultimate year of graduate school when the Michigan Quarterly Review published a double special issue on the topic. The issues included an array of pieces—by schol- ars and artists such as Tobin Siebers, Rosemarie Garland- Thomson, Joseph Grigley, Jim Ferris, Georgina Kleege, David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, and others—that helped launch disability studies in the humanities. Although it was more than ten years before I turned to disability studies professionally, those special issues lingered in my mind and make me all the more honored now to have my book published in the Corporealities series with the Univer- sity of Michigan Press. For his unstinting mentoring ever since my time at Michigan, I am grate- ful to John Whittier-F erguson, who also read sections of the manuscript and gave wise and encouraging advice. I am grateful to the following people for reading parts of the book and providing excellent feedback: Madelyn Detloff, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Rebecah Pulsifer, Aparajita Sagar, Rebecca Sanchez, and Jennifer William. For other forms of mentoring and/or consultation, I am grateful to Douglas Baynton, Michael Davidson, Lennard Davis, Rose- marie Garland- Thomson, John Gordon, Michael Groden, Janet Lyon, Su- zanne Raitt, John- Paul Riquelme, Anna Snaith, and Joseph Valente. Thanks to my Deaf academics group for weekly support and account- ability: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Mel Chua, Stephanie Kerschbaum, and Rebecca Sanchez. And thanks to my Purdue accountability group for helping to keep me plugging along: Elena Coda, Elaine Francis, and Jennifer Wil- liam. I am also grateful for the support of two lunch groups: my comrades in lunch— Elena Benedicto, Geraldine Friedman, Deena Linett, Margaret Rowe, and Aparajita Sagar—a nd my “reading group” (which hasn’t actually discussed books in years)— Elaine Francis, Tara Johnson, Ann Kirchmaier, Revised Pages viii • Acknowledgments Melanie Shoffner, and Jennifer William. I would like in addition to thank my Purdue colleagues Emily Allen, T. J. Boisseau, Marlo David, John Duvall, Dino Felluga, Sandor Goodhart, Daniel Morris, Nancy Peterson, Manushag Powell, and Irwin Weiser for academic advice and friendly support. For emotional sustenance as I carry on with parenting and professing, I am grateful to my friends Fraeda Friedman, Debra Gold, Elizabeth Kiss, Nancy Kusumoto, Jennifer William, Colin William, and Elizabeth Yellen. And I cherish the memory of Rachel Levin Troxell, who died in 2008 and who, had she lived, would have continued to be a mainstay in my life. I am fortunate to have had wonderful students in disability studies and literature classes whose ideas have influenced mine. I would like to acknowl- edge in particular the work of current and former students Stephanie Larson, Jessica Mehr, Rebecah Pulsifer, and Stephanie Schatz. Sincere thanks go to LeAnn Fields, Christopher Dreyer, and Mary Hash- man at the University of Michigan Press, to the series editors, David Mitch- ell and Sharon Snyder, and to the anonymous readers for my manuscript, whose constructive suggestions helped improve the book. LeAnn supported this project from the beginning and offered sage advice along the way. My family has been wonderfully encouraging of my academic work. I am grateful to my brother, Peter Linett, and his spouse, Cheryl Slover-L inett, their daughters, Amelia and Sophie Linett, my father, David Linett, and his spouse, Penny Linett, my mother, Deena Linett, and my parents- in-l aw, Mary Naughton and Seamus Naughton, for their interest in and enthusiasm for my scholarly projects. My mother especially has given feedback on my writing and warmly celebrated my successes. My spouse, Dominic Naughton, generously prioritizes my work, offers practical and realistic feedback, and lovingly sees me through the ups and downs of academic labor. I dedicate this book to our children, Ruth and Lev, who give beautiful shape to our days and our lives. Revised Pages Contents R Introduction 1 1 Mobility and Sexuality 19 2 Blindness and Intimacy 55 3 Deafness, Communication, and Knowledge 85 4 Knowledge Redux: Sensory Disability in Ulysses 119 5 Deformity and Modernist Form 143 Epilogue 197 Notes 205 Works Cited 231 Index 253
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