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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.
- History.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain Why do so many of the most memorable fictional characters in nineteenth-century British literature have disabilities? What did physical disability really mean in Victorian Britain--and what can that meaning teach us about Victorian culture? Fictions of Affliction seeks to answer these questions by investigating works of drama and fiction, writing of the period, and personal testimony of Victorians with disabilities. Holmes finds that melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. The first book of its kind to contribute a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies, Fictions brings the most current critical concerns to bear on questions of the representation of disability.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472025961
- 9780472068418
- 0472098411
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.11877
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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