{"product_id":"disability-and-the-victorians-attitudes-interventions-legacies-9781526163929","title":"Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisability and the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth century right up to the present day. Subjects addressed include deafness, blindness, language delay, substance dependency, imperialism and the representation of disabled characters in popular fiction. These varied topics illustrate how common themes can be found in how Victorian philanthropists and administrators responded to those under their care. Often character, morality and the chance to be restored to productivity and usefulness overrode medical need and this both influenced and reflected wider societal views of impairment and inability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eDisability and the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAttitudes, Interventions, Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e is a very timely work. In the midst of a global pandemic that has left many people newly impaired, there is an increased need for scholarship that provides frameworks for coming to terms with disability as a sociocultural phenomenon and a lived identity. [...] \u003ci\u003eDisability and the Victorian\u003c\/i\u003es makes an important contribution to the history of medicine and attitudes toward disability in Victorian Britain and beyond and provides a useful resource for scholars of nineteenth-century Britain.'\u003cbr\u003eJoyce L. Huff, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDisability and the Victorians certainly fulfils its  editors’ desire to generate debate and spur further  research: its contents encourage critical reflection on  disabled people’s experiences in the present day, thus  enabling us to see how monumentally important the  task of exploring the history of disability is.\u003cbr\u003eCaitlin Doley (University of York), \u003ci\u003eBritish Association for Victorian Studies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword – Karen Sayer \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton and Jaipreet Virdi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Attitudes\u003cbr\u003e1 Restoration to usefulness: Victorian middle-class attitudes towards the healthcare of the working poor – Amy W Farnbach Pearson\u003cbr\u003e2 Imperial lives – confronting the legacies of empire, disability and the Victorians – Esme Cleall\u003cbr\u003e3 Disabling the author in Mid-Victorian realist fiction: case studies of George Eliot and Harriet Martineau – Deborah M Fratz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Interventions\u003cbr\u003e4 Medicalising deafness in Victorian London: the Royal Ear Hospital, 1816-1916 – Jaipreet Virdi\u003cbr\u003e5 Drunkenness, degeneration, and disability in England – Joanne Woiak\u003cbr\u003e6 Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities – Paula Hellal and Marjorie Lorch\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Happiness and usefulness increased”: Consuming ability in the antebellum artificial limb market – Caroline Lieffers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Legacies\u003cbr\u003e8 The disabled child in an industrial metropolis: Glasgow’s children’s hospital, Scottish convalescent homes ‘in the country’, and east park home for infirm children – Iain Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e9 The panopticon: Towards an intimate history of special schools for the blind – Fred Reid\u003cbr\u003e10 Allowed to be idle: Perpetuating Victorian attitudes to deafness and employability in United Kingdom social policy – Martin Atherton\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041030144343,"sku":"9781526163929","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526163929.jpg?v=1750948667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disability-and-the-victorians-attitudes-interventions-legacies-9781526163929","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}