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.

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Walker Gore, Clare (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvss3xhg
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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