Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvClare Walker Gore,Cambridge) Walker Gore, Clare (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College

2 879 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Häftad

479 kr

Skickas

Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fictionOffers new insights into how disability shapes plot in nineteenth-century fictionInvestigates 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 disabilityThis book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It pdemonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, demonstrating 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 Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Henry James, as well as exploring lesser known writers such as Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-17
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474455015

Tillhör följande kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Clare Walker Gore is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has authored ‘The Additional Attraction of Affliction: Disability, Sex and Genre Trouble in Barchester Towers’, Victorian Literature and Culture 45.3 (August 2017), 629-643 and ‘Noble Lives: Writing Masculinity and Disability in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 36.4 (September 2014), 363-375.

Building on a range of prior scholarship in original and thoughtful ways, and never shy of analytical complexity, Walker Gore's book is as generous as it is persuasive. She ends by meditating on how disabled Victorian characters—through their adaptation, continued popularity, and influence on literary successors—"have gone on working…well into our own time, and…still have something useful to offer us" (235). The careful work apparent in every page of Plotting Disability likewise ensures that it will have "something useful" to offer scholars of the representation and reception of disability for many years to come.