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: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Novel
/ Handicap (Motif)
/ Handicapped (Motif)
/ History 1800-1900
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Summary: | This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4744-5503-9 |
