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Fictions of Affliction
Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
by Martha Stoddard Holmes
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 ..."
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