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

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

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

Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England, to

In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and s