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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780703103321

Autore

Holmes Martha Stoddard

Titolo

Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / / Martha Stoddard Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004

ISBN

1-282-59770-1

9786612597701

0-472-02596-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Corporealities :discourses of disability

Disciplina

820.9/3520816

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

People with disabilities in literature

People with disabilities - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Melodramatic Bodies; 2 Marital Melodramas Disabled Women and Victorian Marriage Plots; 3 ""My Old Delightful Sensation""Wilkie Collins and the Disabling of Melodrama; 4 An Object for Compassion, An Enemy to the StateI magining Disabled Boys and Men; 5 Melodramas of the Self Auto/biographies of Victorians with Physical Disabilities; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain