A Rhetoric of Remnants

A Rhetoric of RemnantsExamines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884. In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854 memorialized today as the first public school for people considered

at times with joy

the sole family member to avoid this fate

Aligning with a long history of education scholars who have insisted on the enmeshed nature of schools and society

as a literary and filmic device

sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity

This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement

and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City

Drawing on research from Sunni and Shi>ite literature

Marking a significant departure from most scholarship on Hobbes

a shortage of special image acquisition devices and supporting facilities has resulted in poor image quality

during the early years of World War II

” the travelogue was Mary’s first published work and remains an invaluable text for the study of English Romanticism