Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of

This title brings cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies into dialogue for the first time. Analysing representations of disability in contemporar

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field.

Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative. Disabled char