This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

The modern concept of disability did not exist in the Romantic period. This study addresses the anachronistic use of 'disability' in scholarship of the Romantic

Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent disa

How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central questions of literary historical studies. An

In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Ro