Fictions of Affliction(Illustrated) Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability) by MarthaStoddardHolmes Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06841-8, ISBN: 0-472-06841-5
""Highly recommended . . . 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 . . ..."
"A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and/or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and/or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher’s experience and classroom dyn ..."
"Presenting thirteen essays, editors James C. Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson unite the fields of disability studies and rhetoric to examine connections between disability, education, language, and cultural practices. Bringing together theoretical and analytical perspectives from rhetorical studies and disability studies, these essays extend both the field of rhetoric and the newer field of disability studies. The contribu ..."
"A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.These highly personal essays from a range of academic settings explore the palpable moments of discomfort, disempowerment, and/or enlightenment that emerge when we discard the fiction that the teacher has no body. Visible and/or invisible, the body can transform both the teacher’s experience and classroom dyn ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"For this chapter, we have taken the time to sift through our emotions, choose our
words carefully, and reconstruct our layers of memory. Self-disclosure through
writing becomes crafted, not spontaneous, creating a safer space for self-
disclosure. As Louise DeSalvo writes in Writing as a Way of Healing. How Telling
Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, “Writing about difficulties enables us to
discover the wholeness of things, the conne ..."
Corporealities Discourses of Disability Ser.: Fictions of Affliction : Physical Disability in Victorian Culture by MarthaStoddardHolmes 248 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02596-1, ISBN: 0-472-02596-1
"Author Character Tide Date Wilkie Collins Lavinia Blyth Hide and Seek 1854 Mrs.
Milroy Armadale 1866 Rosanna Spearman The ... Wakem The Mill on the Floss
i860 R. L. Stevenson Long John Silver Treasure Island 1883 Mary Elizabeth
Braddon Lord Lashmar One ... Collins Frederick Fairlie The Woman in White
1858 Matilda Wragge No Name 1862 Oscar Dubourg Poor Miss Finch 1872
Charlotte ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
Fictions of Affliction Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) by MarthaStoddardHolmes Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09841-5, ISBN: 0-472-09841-1
"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 li ..."
"An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century includes chapters on atypical bodies, mobility impairment, chronic ..."