Fictions of Affliction : Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

The University of Michigan Press

Fictions of AfflictionPhysical Disability in Victorian Culture\nAuthor(s): Martha Stoddard Holmes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472068418, 978-0472068418\nSynopsis\n\""Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto.\""\n---Choice \""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies.\""\n---Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University \""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability . . . We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear.\""\n---Victorian Studies Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic repre.