# Recovering Disability in Early Modern England

Recovering Disability in Early Modern England, published by Ohio State University Press in 2020, is a collection of ten essays by Allison P. Hobgood on disability in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writing. Its central argument is that scholars who have spent two decades reading the period through class, race, gender and sexuality have largely passed over disability, even though it appears throughout the literature.

The essays range from real court dwarfs and the dwarf narrators of Spenser's poetry to madness in revenge tragedy, feigned disability in Jonson, Renaissance jest books, Aphra Behn, the Book of Common Prayer and the ableist assumptions in Hobbes and Locke. One essay follows Richard III into the politics of the postcommunist Czech Republic. Written for students and teachers of early modern literature, the book proposes early modern disability studies as a fresh way into human variation and selfhood.

## Books in this series (1)

- Vol. 1 — [Recovering Disability in Early Modern England](https://mybookbandits.com/books/9780814256435) (ISBN 9780814256435)

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