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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman is wonderful with puns & wordplay. "salty sea"
November 24, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#disabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @KleinUla diagnosing Fanny Price now has me googling "virgin's disease"
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @KleinUla pts to how "compulsory able-bodiedness" applies to those dependent on others for financial survival
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @KleinUla reads Fanny as a queer character, drawing on ideas of an "archive of fatigue"
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @KleinUla Fanny as a queer subject makes us confront satire of Pride & Prejudice.
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Knopf on the disabled sailor in #MansfieldPark ties to the costs of empire to those in the colonizing nation
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Now Sailors, Sperm & Jane Austen with Jared Richman
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Richman "disabled" appears 2x in Austen: Mrs Smith in Persuasion & Fanny's father in #MansfieldPark
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman "able bodied" a keyword today w/ long history & is a technical naval term (a step above "ordinary")
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman How is disablilty, naval ratings contrasted to upper-class masculinity in Persuasion
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman Persuasion's opening w/ baronetage highlights not Sir W's position but fail to produce a male heir
November 24, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman Contrasting Sir W's failure, the rest of Persuasion is "lousy with children"
November 24, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman in Persuasion, virility is aligned with patriotism, fecundity is valued in masculinity.
November 24, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman despite "lameness" Harville is constantly protrayed as "useful": he makes, he does, he populates
November 24, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @JSRichman quoting Monty Python "Every Sperm Is Special"
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Stanback (@EBStanback?) opens w/ image of Austen's family tree, every brother has a portrait except for George
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Stanback uses terms from the era in discussing disability & medicine in the British Romantic era
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Stanback points to how Austen biographers sometimes erase Geroge, as mid #c19 views of disability as shamefull
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @EBStanback pts to diverse Romantic views of epilepsy & "idiocy" to frame potential Austen family perspectives
November 24, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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How many Jane Austen talks & panels are happening right now? I am in #DisabilityInAusten but following the other Austen tweets #ASECS17
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @EBStanback How does living in a family w/ at least 3 disabled members shape her free indirect discourse?
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 @EBStanback Austen is known to have "talked with her fingers" (signed) when verbal wasn't possible
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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#DisabilityInAusten #ASECS17 Now @devoneylooser responds to the panel. Opening with the need for more work in this field
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM