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Autore |
Holmes Martha Stoddard |
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Titolo |
Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / / Martha Stoddard Holmes |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-59770-1 |
9786612597701 |
0-472-02596-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Collana |
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Corporealities :discourses of disability |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain |
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