List of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Negotiating Normalcy in the Long Nineteenth Century, Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind, Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USA Chapter 4: Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba, Canada Chapter 5: Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield, UK Chapter 6: Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin, MacEwan University, Canada Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of Idiocy in the Nineteenth Century, PatrickMcDonagh, Concordia University, Canada Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, USA Notes Bibliography Index