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Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Corporealities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.