Fictions of Affliction - Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

Informationen zum Autor Martha Stoddard Holmes is Associate Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University! San Marcos. Klappentext Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?' Zusammenfassung Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain

Product details

• Authors: Martha Stoddard Holmes
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780472068418
• ISBN: 978-0-472-06841-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies