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Fictions of Affliction : Physical Disability in Victorian Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Fictions of Affliction : Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Paperback / softback

Part of the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series

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This book reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain.

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.

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