| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Representations: health, disability, culture and society |
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Representations (Liverpool, England)
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| Contents |
Text as Body and Body as Text: How Literary Form Textually Creates the Body -- Negotiating Victorian Disability -- I. Grotesque Bodies: Hybridity and Focalization in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris -- Hybridity, Disability, and the ̀Modern' Novel -- Focalization: Externally Authoritative or Internally Ambiguous -- Reading Quasimodo: Interpretation or Empathy? -- II. Social Bodies: Dickens and the Disabled Narrator in Bleak House -- Externally Focalizing on the Social Body -- Smallpox and the Esther Industry: Critical Readings of Esther's Facial Scarring -- Focalization, Form, and the Fractured Self -- ̀Shape Structures Story': The Disabled Narrator -- III. Sensing Bodies: Negotiating the Body and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone -- ̀Physiological Telegraph': Genre, Form, and the Body in Aurora Floyd -- Reading Disability and Reading Health -- Destabilizing Normalcy: Focalization, Identity, and the Body in The Moonstone -- Destabilizing Normalcy at the Shivering Sand -- Linearity and Narrative Control of Deviance -- IV. Sanctified Bodies: Christian Theology and Disability in Ellice Hopkins's Rose Turquand and Charlotte Yonge's The Pillars of the House -- Individual Incarnation and the Single-Focused Narrative: Disability and Illness in Rose Turquand -- Focalization and the Collective Body -- Communal Incarnation and the Multiple-Focus Narrative: Disability and Illness in The Pillars of the House -- Intellectual Disability, Focalization, and Closure -- V. Fairy-Tale Bodies: Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik's The Little Lame Prince -- Prostheticizing Maturity -- Embodied Narrator and Readers -- Focalization and Prosthesis -- VI. Mysterious Bodies: Solving and De-Solving Disability in the Fin-de-Siecle Mystery -- Constructing the Disabled Object: The Scientific Gaze in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Diagnosing Hyde -- Narrative Prosthesis and the Gothic Open Ending -- Detecting Disability: Narrative Structure and Reading the Body in ̀The Crooked Man' -- Detective Fiction's Drive towards Closure and Cure -- Focalizating Disability's Shifting Signification |
| Summary |
Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Disabilities in literature.
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18.05 English literature.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary Criticism -- Gothic & Romance.
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Disabilities in literature
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English fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789624953 |
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1789624959 |
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