Fictions of Affliction
Fictions of Affliction "Highly recommended . . . We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."--Victorian StudiesTiny Tim, Clym…
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Fictions of Affliction
"Highly recommended . . . We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."--Victorian StudiesTiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto."--Choice"An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University"Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability . . .
Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing
Fictions of Affliction
Affliction
Vampire Affliction
Fictions
Ludonova Fictions
Science Fictions
Selected Non-Fictions
Essays and Fictions