While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, until very recently there has been little engagement with disability and disabled selves in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
This omission is especially problematic insofar as representations of disabled bodies and minds serve as some of the signature features in English Renaissance texts.
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Ohio State University Press Recovering disability in early modern england, paperback/allison p. hobgood
