Plotting disability in the nineteenth-century novel / Clare Walker Gore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker Gore, Clare, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

People with disabilities in literature.

Disabilities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It demonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, demonstrating how attention to disability sheds new light on texts' arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens

Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins

Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge

Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James

Coda

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-8122-1

1-4744-5503-4

OCLC:

1312726212