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Fictions of Affliction
Martha Stoddard Holmes
其他書名
Physical Disability in Victorian Culture
出版University of Michigan Press, 2010-02-09
主題Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / People with DisabilitiesLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN97804720259610472025961
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M9zltWtEsy8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.