Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

by Martha Stoddard Holmes

"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 ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068415
• ISBN13: 9780472068418
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"