Introduction : variability : beyond sameness and difference / Chris Mounsey
"Perfect according to their kind" : deformity, defect and disease in the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish / Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker
What's the matter with madness? : John Locke, the Association of Ideas, and the physiology of thought / Jess Keiser
Defections from nature : the rhetoric of deformity in Shaftesbury's Characteristics / Paul Kelleher
Thomas Reid : power as first philosophy / Emile Bojesen
"An HOBBY-HORSE well worth giving a description of" : disability, trauma, and language in Tristram Shandy / Anna K. Sagal
"One cannot be too secure" : wrongful confinement, or, the pathologies of the domestic economy / Dana Gliserman Kopans
"On that rock I lay" : images of disability found in religious verse / Jamie Kinsley
Attractive deformity : enabling the "shocking monster" from Sarah Scott's Agreeable ugliness / Jason S. Farr
Reading "The Blind Poetess of Lichfield" : the consolatory odes of Priscilla Poynton / Jess Domanico
God grant us grace, that we may take due pains, to practice what this exercise contains; to which, if we apply our best endeavour, we shall be happy here, and bless'd for ever / Chris Mounsey.
