Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / Clare Walker Gore

By: Gore, Clare WalkerContributor(s): Gore, Clare WalkerMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Zafaa Books & Distributors | :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035Series: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culturePublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020Description: x, 260p. 24cmISBN: 9781474455022Subject(s): Literature | English and Old English literatures | English fiction | Disabilities in literature | People with disabilities in literature | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 823.809 GOR
Contents:
Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens -- Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins -- Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge -- Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.
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Intro --
Series Editor's Preface --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction --
Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens --
Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins --
Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge --
Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James --
Coda --
Bibliography --
Index

This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.

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