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Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / Martha Stoddard Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoddard Holmes, Martha.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities :discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- People with disabilities--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- People with disabilities.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 Melodramatic Bodies; 2 Marital Melodramas Disabled Women and Victorian Marriage Plots; 3 ""My Old Delightful Sensation""Wilkie Collins and the Disabling of Melodrama; 4 An Object for Compassion, An Enemy to the StateI magining Disabled Boys and Men; 5 Melodramas of the Self Auto/biographies of Victorians with Physical Disabilities; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612597701
- 9781282597709
- 1282597701
- 9780472025961
- 0472025961
- OCLC:
- 923501286
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