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Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. The first book of its kind, __Fictions of Affliction__ contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others.

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Author

Martha Stoddard Holmes

Publisher

University of Michigan Press ; University Presses Marketing

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612597701

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24