Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian CultureUniversity of Michigan Press, 09 փտվ, 2010 թ. - 248 էջ Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? 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. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. The first book of its kind, Fictions of Affliction contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others. |
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Introduction | 1 |
1 Melodramatic Bodies | 16 |
2 Marital Melodramas Disabled Women and Victorian Marriage Plots | 34 |
3 My Old Delightful SensationWilkie Collins and the Disabling of Melodrama | 74 |
4 An Object for Compassion An Enemy to the StateI magining Disabled Boys and Men | 94 |
5 Melodramas of the Self Autobiographies of Victorians with Physical Disabilities | 133 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Appendix | 197 |
Notes | 201 |
Works Cited | 211 |
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Էջ x - This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
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