Ria Cheyne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Affective Encounters and Reflexive Representations Chapter 1: Horror: Fearful Bodyminds Chapter 2: Character and Closure: Disability in Crime Chapter 3: Wondrous Texts: Science Fiction Chapter 4: Fantasy: Affirmation and Enchantment Chapter 5: Desirable Futures: Romance Conclusion: Reading and Feeling Works Cited Disability in Genre Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography Index

'This essential work makes visible readerly feelings towards disability so that these might be evaluated and reconsidered. [...] In bringing into conversation two distinct strands of criticism, disability studies and genre theory, Cheyne populates her scholarly context with recognizable names from each field. [...] Cheyne's project names a terrain while smartly acknowledging that it has only begun to map such. Theoretical and textual ground is yet to be drawn, and Disability, Literature, and Genre presents readers both the direction and tools needed to do so.' Evan Chaloupka, Disability Studies Quarterly

Ria Cheyne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Affective Encounters and Reflexive Representations Chapter 1: Horror: Fearful Bodyminds Chapter 2: Character and Closure: Disability in Crime Chapter 3: Wondrous Texts: Science Fiction Chapter 4: Fantasy: Affirmation and Enchantment Chapter 5: Desirable Futures: Romance Conclusion: Reading and Feeling Works Cited Disability in Genre Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography Index

'This essential work makes visible readerly feelings towards disability so that these might be evaluated and reconsidered. [...] In bringing into conversation two distinct strands of criticism, disability studies and genre theory, Cheyne populates her scholarly context with recognizable names from each field. [...] Cheyne's project names a terrain while smartly acknowledging that it has only begun to map such. Theoretical and textual ground is yet to be drawn, and Disability, Literature, and Genre presents readers both the direction and tools needed to do so.' Evan Chaloupka, Disability Studies Quarterly

Ria Cheyne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disability and Education at Liverpool Hope University.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Affective Encounters and Reflexive Representations Chapter 1: Horror: Fearful Bodyminds Chapter 2: Character and Closure: Disability in Crime Chapter 3: Wondrous Texts: Science Fiction Chapter 4: Fantasy: Affirmation and Enchantment Chapter 5: Desirable Futures: Romance Conclusion: Reading and Feeling Works Cited Disability in Genre Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography Index

'This essential work makes visible readerly feelings towards disability so that these might be evaluated and reconsidered. [...] In bringing into conversation two distinct strands of criticism, disability studies and genre theory, Cheyne populates her scholarly context with recognizable names from each field. [...] Cheyne's project names a terrain while smartly acknowledging that it has only begun to map such. Theoretical and textual ground is yet to be drawn, and Disability, Literature, and Genre presents readers both the direction and tools needed to do so.' Evan Chaloupka, Disability Studies Quarterly