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Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / Martha Stoddard Holmes.
- Stoddard Holmes, Martha.
- Date
- [2004], ©2004
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
xiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
Contents
Melodramatic bodies -- Marital melodramas : disabled women and Victorian marriage plots -- "My old delightful sensation" : Wilkie Collins and the disabling of melodrama -- An object for compassion, an enemy to the state : imagining disabled boys and men -- Melodramas of the self : auto/biographies of Victorians with physical disabilities.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineNH.U.AA8Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 0472098411