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Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fiction
This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It pdemonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, demonstrating how attention to disability sheds new light on texts' arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of major writers including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Henry James, as well as exploring lesser known writers such as Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik.
Clare Walker Gore is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has authored 'The Additional Attraction of Affliction: Disability, Sex and Genre Trouble in Barchester Towers', Victorian Literature and Culture 45.3 (August 2017), 629-643 and 'Noble Lives: Writing Masculinity and Disability in the Late Nineteenth Century', Nineteenth-Century Contexts 36.4 (September 2014), 363-375.
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