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Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'

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Highly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."" - Victorian Studies

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 30/01/2009
      ISBN13: 9780472068418, 978-0472068418
      ISBN10: 0472068415
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. This book introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like 'can disabled men work?' and 'should disabled women have babies?'

      Trade Review
      Highly recommended... Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. - Choice ""An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies and disability studies."" - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University ""Establishes that Victorian melodrama informs many of our contemporary notions of disability... We have inherited from the Victorians not pandemic disability, but rather the complex of sympathy and fear."" - Victorian Studies

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