Masquerade of Lameness: On George Gordon Byron's Body Performance in Byromania and The Deformed Transformed
| Autor: | Yu-tong Lin, 林禹彤 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 104 Seen by many as the first modern celebrity, George Gordon Byron was a world-famous poet with a visible impairment. With ableist prejudice permeating the visual discourse of Byromania, his disability identity, which was established as discontinuous with the Byronic charisma, has been long neglected or devalued until the recent critical effort of Disability Studies. By the time when Byron’s popularity had exposed him to the public eye to the extent of visual excess, the hypervisibility of his physical presence in the fan culture inevitably coincided with the heightened visibility of his birth defect in the contemporary ableist context. Since the Years of Fame, Byron’s body performance had been documented by mass spectators, many of whom adopted the ableist representational system and masqueraded the celebrity poet with the negative stereotyping of disability. In contrast to the disability discrimination scattered over the mass spectatorship of Byromania, Byron’s last dramatic fragment, The Deformed Transformed (1824), could be viewed as a rebellious response to the reading public’s generic expectation for an ideal body imagined to be Byronic. Moreover, it also serves as Byron’s textual masquerade of his transformative impulse to reform disability images. Combining Disability Studies with Biographical Criticism, this essay explores how Byron’s disabled body has been masqueraded by the mass spectatorship of Byromania as well as how the poet reframes disability experiences with the transgressive performance of a deformed body in The Deformed Transformed. |
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