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Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP) by Kylee-Anne Hingston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP) about?
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and the body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies shows the mutability of the Victorians’ understanding of the human body’s centrality to identity—an understanding made mutable by changes in science, technology, religion, and class. It also demonstrates how that understanding changed along with developing narrative styles: as disability became increasingly medicalized and the soul increasingly psychologized, the mode of looking at deviant bodies shifted from gaping at spectacle to scrutinizing specimen, and the shape of narratives evolved from lengthy multiple-plot novels to slim case studies. Mo
Who reads Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kylee-Anne Hingston
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789629491
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Romance, Literary Fiction