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Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment

This monograph is the first study of disability in eighteenth-century England. Double weighting is merited by the pioneering nature of the work, which involved innovative use of fragmentary and unconventional sources. Because there are few records directly relating to disability in this period, the author needed to read many different texts against the grain, including medical and religious treatises, joke books, social commentary, newspapers, letters and criminal court records. The output was therefore ‘contingent upon the completion of a particularly complex and extensive’ phase of research.