Tag: Disability in Literature

• ‘The Victorian Freak Show’- Craton, Lillian

  The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in England throughout much of the nineteenth century, and souvenir portraits of performing freaks even found their way into Victorian family albums. At the same time, the imagery and practices of the freak show…

  The Disability Archives

  7th Dec 2023

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  Academic, Charles Dickens, Disability History, Disability in Literature, Disability Studies, Disfigurement, Dwarfism, Fatness, Florence Marryat, History, Lewis Carroll, Literature Studies, Maupassant, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Read By Archivist, Stand Alone, Victorian Literature, Wilkie Collins

• ‘The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability’- Barker, Clare. Murray, Stuart

  This Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding of disability narrative changes the way we read literature. With contributions…

  The Disability Archives

  12th Sep 2023

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