Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture by Martha Stoddard Holmes

Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Martha Stoddard Holmes

248 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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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 by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness,...

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