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Neither Hingston nor Walker Gore seeks to write an overall theory of disability in the Victorian novel - a targeted approach observable even in their titles: Hingston tries to "articulate" the ways disability was written into literature and Walker Gore sets out to "plot" the work the disabled characters do. Hingston and Walker Gore represent what we might call a second wave of literary disability studies. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides brief biographical information about various contributors to the field of medical humanities. The contributors come from diverse backgrounds and have expertise in areas such as literature, anthropology, history, and art. Their research explores topics such as illness narratives, pain, disability, and the intersection of medicine and culture. The document highlights the range of perspectives and approaches within the field of medical humanities. [Extracted from the article]

This essay reconsiders the representation of cognitive disability in literature, suggesting a new mode of reading in which the disabled character is viewed as a dynamic figure with an identity, and corresponding set of formal implications, that the reader comes to know over the progression of the story. Focusing on Benjy's section in The Sound and the Fury, I examine the specific disabled modality by which Faulkner's narrator organizes the world: object attention. Benjy uses objects to constellate his experiences, and a latent pattern of object deployment undergirds the narrative. As Benjy "tries to say" his story, he crafts a narrative that generates from his object attachments, allowing readers to make sense of his experience in a novel form—if we only try to see it. My analysis suggests that the appeal of fiction about cognitive disability lies not in confronting some fundamental inaccessibility of the disabled subject or the world he inhabits, but in wrestling with the strictures of a text's accessibility so that the subject or world might come to be known. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]