The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century explores disabled people who lived in the eighteenth century. The first four essays consider philosophical writ

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorte

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were for

This study examines physical disability in 18th century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cult

Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth