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Sensational Deviance - Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction (Hardcover)
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Sensational Deviance - Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation
Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional
works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins
and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a
major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how
various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of
disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric
knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation
fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of
disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its
stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or
pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their
investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities
against the period's disability discourses and interest in senses,
perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of
impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration
theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal
anthropology, suggesting the genre's further significance in the
light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and
genetics.
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