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Martha Stoddard Holmes - Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) - 9780472068418 - V9780472068418
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Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

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Description for Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) Paperback. Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?' Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 halftones in text. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.

"Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto."
---Choice "An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."
---Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University "Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability . . . We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."
---Victorian Studies Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472068418
SKU
V9780472068418
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Martha Stoddard Holmes
Martha Stoddard Holmes is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos.

Reviews for Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
Highly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited ... Read more

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