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Tables of Contents for Defects
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
30
Part 1. Disability
Dumb Virgins, Blind Ladies, and Eunuchs: Fictions of Defect
31
23
Felicity Nussbaum
Dr. Johnson, Amelia, and the Discourse of Disability in the Eighteenth Century
54
21
Lennard J. Davis
Paper, Picture, Sign: Conversations between the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and Others
75
20
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Part 2. Monstrosity
In the Bodyshop: Human Exhibition in Early Modern England
95
32
Stephen Pender
Making a Monster: Socializing Sexuality and the Monster of 1790
127
27
Barbara M. Benedict
Monstrous Knowledge: Representing the National Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
154
23
Joel Reed
The Author as Monster: The Case of Dr. Johnson
177
36
Helen Deutsch
Part 3. Imperfections
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the ``Glass Revers'd'' of Female Old Age
213
39
Jill Campbell
``Perfect'' Flowers, Monstrous Women: Eighteenth-Century Botany and the Modern Gendered Subject
252
28
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
Obedient Faces: The Virtue of Deformity in Sarah Scott's Fiction
280
23
Robert W. Jones
Afterword: Liberalism, Feminism, and Defect
303
16
Cora Kaplan
Contributors
319
4
Index
323