Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / / Martha Stoddard Holmes
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/3520816 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| People with disabilities in literature | |
| People with disabilities - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Civilization 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fictions of affliction |
| ISBN: | 1-282-59770-1 |
| 9786612597701 | |
| 0-472-02596-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456356203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Corporealities.