Gregory Brophy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6683003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Brophy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Brophy |
| SIGNATURE | BROPHY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bishop's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Untouchable
Historically, cinematic spectacles of acquired impairment have expended much energy negotiating the gender trouble that disability provokes in male bodies, typically infusing narratives of rehabilitation with fantasies of gender reconstruction. These gender crises arise because hegemonic expectations about masculine identity as synonymous with autonomy and dominance conflict with the normative social scripts framing disability as a state of helpl…
Fit and Counterfeit
This paper explores Victorian culture’s persistent associations between epilepsy and bodily expenditure to locate the place of the epileptic body within the Victorian ‘libidinal economy’. It centres on a reading of Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch (1872) as a highly original meditation on the implications of disability and visibility. In this novel, a reclusive silversmith named Oscar Dubourg curbs his post-traumatic seizures with silver nitrate,…
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Fit and Counterfeit
This paper explores Victorian culture’s persistent associations between epilepsy and bodily expenditure to locate the place of the epileptic body within the Victorian ‘libidinal economy’. It centres on a reading of Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch (1872) as a highly original meditation on the implications of disability and visibility. In this novel, a reclusive silversmith named Oscar Dubourg curbs his post-traumatic seizures with silver nitrate,…
Untouchable
Historically, cinematic spectacles of acquired impairment have expended much energy negotiating the gender trouble that disability provokes in male bodies, typically infusing narratives of rehabilitation with fantasies of gender reconstruction. These gender crises arise because hegemonic expectations about masculine identity as synonymous with autonomy and dominance conflict with the normative social scripts framing disability as a state of helpl…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Counterfeit (1 works)