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02672aam a2200397Ia 4500 001 77D568CE81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151103010200 008 111104r20092004miua b s001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780472068418 020 $a 0472068415 035 $a (OCoLC)759584109 040 $a KFP $b eng $c KFP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 14 $a PR468.P35 $b S76 2009 100 1 $a Stoddard Holmes, Martha. 245 10 $a Fictions of affliction : $b physical disability in Victorian culture / $c Martha Stoddard Holmes. 250 $a 1st pbk. ed. 260 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2009. 300 $a xiv, 228 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Corporealities 500 $a Originally published 2004. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 530 $a Also issued online. 520 1 $a "We all know Tiny Tim, that familiar Victorian figure of infirmity, sentimentality, and charity: why do so many of the most memorable fiction characters in nineteenth-century British literature have disabilities? What did physical disability mean to people in Victorian Britain - and what can that meaning teach us about Victorian culture? In Fictions of Affliction, Martha Stoddard Holmes seeks to answer these questions by investigating works of drama and fiction and other writing of the period, including the personal testimony of Victorians with disabilities. Holmes finds that melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves."--Jacket. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a People with disabilities $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Civilization $y 19th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Stoddard Holmes, Martha. $t Fictions of affliction. $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004 $w (OCoLC)607350243 830 0 $a Corporealities. 941 $a 1 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20151103031853.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=77D568CE81F911E58D57CB8FDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search