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Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / Martha Stoddard Holmes.
Author
Stoddard Holmes, Martha
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
©2004
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
English literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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People with disabilities in literature
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People with disabilities
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Great Britain
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History
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19th century
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Invalids in literature
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Great Britain
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Civilization
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19th century
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Series
Corporealities
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Summary note
"We all know Tiny Tim, that familiar Victorian figure of infirmity, sentimentality, and charity: why do so many of the most memorable fiction characters in nineteenth-century British literature have disabilities? What did physical disability mean to people in Victorian Britain - and what can that meaning teach us about Victorian culture? In Fictions of Affliction, Martha Stoddard Holmes seeks to answer these questions by investigating works of drama and fiction and other writing of the period, including the 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."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Melodramatic bodies
Marital melodramas : disabled women and Victorian marriage plots
"My old delightful sensation" : Wilkie Collins and the disabling of melodrama
An object for compassion, an enemy to the state : imagining disabled boys and men
Melodramas of the self : auto/biographies of Victorians with physical disabilities.
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ISBN
9780472025961 ((electronic bk.))
0472025961 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
300839856
Other standard number
10.3998/mpub.11877
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