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1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Corporealities
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Corporealities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. |
| Contents |
Melodramatic bodies -- Marital melodramas : disabled women and Victorian marriage plots -- "My old delightful sensation" : Wilkie Collins and the disabling of melodrama -- An object for compassion, an enemy to the state : imagining disabled boys and men -- Melodramas of the self : auto/biographies of Victorians with physical disabilities. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
"We all know Tiny Tim, that familiar Victorian figure of infirmity, sentimentality, and charity: why do so many of the most memorable fiction characters in nineteenth-century British literature have disabilities? What did physical disability mean to people in Victorian Britain - and what can that meaning teach us about Victorian culture? In Fictions of Affliction, Martha Stoddard Holmes seeks to answer these questions by investigating works of drama and fiction and other writing of the period, including the personal testimony of Victorians with disabilities. Holmes finds that melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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People with disabilities -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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People with disabilities. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stoddard Holmes, Martha. Fictions of affliction. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004 0472098411 9780472098415 (DLC) 2003012932 (OCoLC)52471262 |
| ISBN |
9780472025961 (electronic book) |
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0472025961 (electronic book) |
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0472068415 |
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9780472068418 |
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9780472068418 |
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0472098411 (acid-free paper) |
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9780472098415 (acid-free paper) |
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