The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

by Karen Bourrier

Book Overview

The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of male characters with disabilities, a phenomenon that author Karen Bourrier sees as a response to the rise of a new Victorian culture of industry and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052489
• ISBN13: 9780472052486
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"