Plotting disability in the nineteenth-century novel /
This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvss3xhg |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens
- Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins
- Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge
- Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index