Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century
fiction Offers new insights into how disability shapes plot in
nineteenth-century fiction Investigates the impact of a developing
social category on the form of the novel, opening up ways of
thinking about the intersection between novelistic characterisation
and categories of social organisation Offers new readings of
well-known novels by major writers such as Dickens, Eliot and James
and brings these texts into conversation with work by more
marginalised figures such as Yonge and Craik, considering the
relationship between canon formation and the representation of
disability 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.
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