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Author | : Clare Walker Gore |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Disabilities in literature |
ISBN | : 1474455034 |
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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 | : Iain Hutchison |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526145707 |
Download Disability and the Victorians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789624959 |
Download Articulating Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Charlotte Mary Yonge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Cousins |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martha Stoddard Holmes |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0472025961 |
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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, 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. The first book of its kind, Fictions of Affliction contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others.
Author | : Lillian Craton |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism & Collections |
ISBN | : 1604976535 |
Download The Victorian Freak Show Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"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.
Author | : Jill Nicole Galvan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780814254745 |
Download Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-century British Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.
Author | : Peter J. Capuano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2020-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814214398 |
Download Victorian Hands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474474365 |
Download Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.
Author | : Alexandra Valint |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-01-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814214633 |
Download Narrative Bonds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While narrative fracturing, multiplicity, and experimentalism are commonly associated with modernist and postmodern texts, they have largely been understudied in Victorian literature. Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel focuses on the centrality of these elements and address the proliferation of multiple narrators in Victorian novels. In Narrative Bonds, Alexandra Valint explores the ways in which the Victorian multi-narrator form moves toward the unity of vision across characters and provides inclusivity in an era of expanding democratic rights and a growing middle class. Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure in Victorian novels.