Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture
"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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations
9780472025961, 0472025961
300839856
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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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