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Dear All This looks interesting Best wishes Colin The Journal of Literary Disability 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 only a tiny minority of these 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. It is the aim of JLD to contribute 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. Free Subscription Literary scholars with an interest in the discipline of disability studies are invited to subscribe to the journal, as are disability scholars with an interest in literary representation. All subscribers will be sent a summary of the contents of each new issue as soon as it is available online. Call for Papers Scholars are invited to submit articles, comments from the field, book reviews and letters for publication in the new journal. Articles will be peer reviewed by some of the most eminent literary disability scholars in the world. Submissions for general issues are always welcome, but the journal also invites proposals for special issues from time to time. The list of special issues includes JLD: Disability and/as Poetry, JLD: Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency and JLD: The Representation of Cognitive Impairment. For further information about subscribing and submitting to JLD, visit: www.journalofliterarydisability.com <http://www.journalofliterarydisability.com/> ________________End of message______________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.