Plotting Disability In The Nineteenth Century Novel

Author : Clare Walker Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474455034
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel written by Clare Walker Gore and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.

Author : Martha Stoddard Holmes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025961
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Affliction written by Martha Stoddard Holmes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 only novels, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. Martha Stoddard Holmes is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, San Marcos.

Author : Iain Hutchison
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526145707
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability and the Victorians written by Iain Hutchison and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.

Author : Kylee-Anne Hingston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624959
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Articulating Bodies written by Kylee-Anne Hingston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction’s narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor Miss Finch written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heir of Redclyffe written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Nicole Galvan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814254745
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-century British Literature written by Jill Nicole Galvan and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.

Author : Peter J. Capuano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814214398
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Hands written by Peter J. Capuano and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.

Author : Jessica R. Valdez
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474474365
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel written by Jessica R. Valdez and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.

Author : Lillian Craton
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604976535
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Freak Show written by Lillian Craton and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in England throughout much of the nineteenth century, and souvenir portraits of performing freaks even found their way into Victorian family albums. At the same time, the imagery and practices of the freak show shocked Victorian sensibilities and sparked controversy about both the boundaries of physical normalcy and morality in entertainment. Marketing tactics for the freak show often made use of common ideological assumptions - compulsory female domesticity and British imperial authority, for instance - but reflected these ideas with the surreal distortion of a fun-house mirror. Not surprisingly, the popular fiction written for middle-class Victorian readers also calls upon imagery of extreme physical difference, and the odd-bodied characters that people nineteenth-century fiction raise meaningful questions about the relationships between physical difference and the social expectations that shaped Victorian life." "This book is primarily an aesthetic analysis of freak show imagery as it appears in Victorian popular fiction, including the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Florence Marryat, and Lewis Carroll. It argues that, in spite of a strong nineteenth-century impulse to define and defend normalcy, images of radical physical difference are often framed in surprisingly positive ways in Victorian fiction. The dwarves, fat people, and bearded ladies who intrude on the more conventional imagery of Victorian novels serve to shift the meaning of those works' main plots and characters, sometimes sharpening satires of the nineteenth-century treatment of the poor or disabled, sometimes offering new traits and behaviors as supplements for restrictive social norms." --Book Jacket.