Table of contents : LIST OF FIGURES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS SERIES PREFACE Introduction / D. Christopher Gabbard and Susannah B. Mintz 1. Atypical Bodies: Difference and Assertion / Sara van den Berg 2. Mobility Impairment: Experiences of “Lameness” in Eighteenth-century England / David M. Turner 3. Chronic Pain and Illness: Enlightenment and Romantic Responses / Isabella Cooper 4. Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren’t You Surprised I Can Speak?” / Kate E. Tunstall 5. Deafness: Language and Personhood in the Enlightenment / Kristin Lindgren 6. Speech: The Sound of Disability / Dwight Codr and Jared S. Richman 7. Learning Difficulties: Intellectual Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century / Simon Jarrett and C. F. Goodey 8. Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Mad People in the Eighteenth Century / Allison P. Hobgood NOTES REFERENCES INDEX