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## Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fiction * Offers new insights into how disability shapes plot in nineteenth-century fiction * Investigates the impact of a developing social category on the form of the novel, opening up ways of thinking about the intersection between novelistic characterisation and categories of social organisation * Offers new readings of well-known novels by major writers such as Dickens, Eliot and James and brings these texts into conversation with work by more marginalised figures such as Yonge and Craik, considering the relationship between canon formation and the representation of disability This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It demonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, showing how attention to disability sheds new light on texts’ arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of major writers including Charles D
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- Author
- Walker Gore Clare Walker Gore
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474455039
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction
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