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Disability and the Victorians : attitudes, interventions, legacies / edited by Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton, Jaipreet Virdi.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Disability history.
- Disability History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disabilities--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- People with disabilities--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Victorian era, encompassing the latter six decades of the nineteenth century, was a period by which significant areas of the British Isles had become industrialised and urbanised. Both processes exacerbated the extent of impairing conditions, ranging from industrial injury through the prevalence of debilitating physiological illnesses. Disability and the Victorians: attitudes, interventions, legacies brings together the work of eleven scholars and focuses on the history of disability and, while showcasing the work of a diverse gathering of historians, also gives a flavour of how disability history engages the work of scholars from other disciplines and how they, in turn, enhance historical thought and understanding. Equally, while the focus is on the Victorian era, a time during which society changed significantly, both at the bottom and from the top, it was also a time in which patterns developed that were to have an enduring influence. Therefore, a taste of that enduring influence is presented in chapters that suggest the resilience of Victorian thought and practices in the modern era. Consequently, an underlying aim is to encourage readers to take a broad view, both of 'disability' and of Victorian influences and values.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on CIP data and print record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-4572-3
- OCLC:
- 1232727769
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