Introduction: on reading disability in literature / Clare Barker and Stuart Murray -- Across literatures. Monsters, saints, and sinners: disability in medieval literature / Edward Wheatley -- Early modern literature and disability studies / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Disability and deformity: function impairment and aesthetics in the long eighteenth century / Essaka Joshua -- Embodying affliction in nineteenth-century fiction / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Paralyzed modernities and biofutures: bodies and minds in modern literature / Michael Davidson -- The ambiguities of inclusion: disability in contemporary literature / Stuart Murray -- "Radiant affliction": disability narratives in postcolonial literature / Clare Barker -- Across critical methods. Disability and the edges of intersectionality / Alison Kafer and Eunjung Kim -- The world-making potential of contemporary crip/queer literary and cultural production / Robert Mcruer -- Race and disability in U.S. literature / Michelle Jarman -- Disability and women's writing / Sami Schalk -- Disability in genre fiction / Ria Cheyne -- Signifying selves: disability and life writing / G. Thomas Couser -- Disability rhetorics / Jay Dolmage -- Afterword / Petra Kuppers.