Journal of Literary Disability

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There are few literary works that do not portray disability in one way or another. Be it poetry, drama, fiction or film, Classical, Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist, Post-War or Post-Modern, literary disability can be found in every genre from every era. Indeed, the reading lists of English departments throughout the world are rich with works that represent disability in one way or another.

The problem is that few English departments approach literature from a perspective that is appreciative of disability. That is to say, unlike the conceptually comparable constructs of ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality, those of disability are generally rendered beyond the scope of literary studies.

The Journal of Literary Disability contributes to the modernisation of this taxonomy by demonstrating the value of readings that are informed by disability studies, as well as by analysing the absence of such readings in so many undergraduate English courses.

The Journal was founded by David Bolt in 2006 and launched at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network, Liverpool John Moores University, May 26-27, 2007.^[1]