Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives

By Alex Tankard

Book Overview

Demonstrates that recognisable, politicised, and self-aware disabled identities were possible one hundred years before the modern Disability Rights movement Argues that emerging biomedical model of tuberculosis began to undermine the dominance of sentimental, Romantic, and religious models of consumptive identity Argues that when the right social and cultural conditions aligned, these remarkable disabled identities could even be found in bestselling or canonical Victorian novels

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319890743
• ISBN13: 9783319890746
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"