Measure of Manliness - Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

Klappentext Examines the proliferation of crippled! maimed! and disabled men in the mid-nineteenth-century novel! showing that disability was central to Victorian narrative form. Karen Bourrier argues that this unexpected interest in masculine weakness and disability was a response to the rise of a new Victorian culture of industry and vitality! and its corollary emphasis on a hardy! active manhood. Zusammenfassung Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

Product details

• Authors: Karen Bourrier
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2015
• EAN: 9780472072484
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07248-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies