Articulating Bodies
The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction
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2022
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-687-5 (ISBN)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
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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.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies demonstrates that throughout the Victorian era, authors of fiction used narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality. As fiction’s form developed from the massive hybrid novels of the early decades of the nineteenth century to the case-study length of fin-de-siècle mysteries, disability became increasingly medicalized, moving from the position of spectacle to specimen.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” (1893), covering genres that typically relied upon disabled or diseased characters. By tracing the patterns of focalization and narrative structure across six decades of the nineteenth century and across six genres, Articulating Bodies demonstrates that throughout the Victorian era, authors of fiction used narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructing and questioning the boundary dividing normalcy from abnormality. As fiction’s form developed from the massive hybrid novels of the early decades of the nineteenth century to the case-study length of fin-de-siècle mysteries, disability became increasingly medicalized, moving from the position of spectacle to specimen.
Kylee-Anne Hingston is a Lecturer in English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.
IntroductionGrotesque Bodies: Hybridity and Focalization in Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de ParisSocial Bodies: Dickens and the Disabled Narrator in Bleak HouseSensing Bodies: Negotiating the Body and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd and Wilkie Collins’s The MoonstoneSanctified Bodies: Christian Theology and Disability in Ellice Hopkins’s Rose Turquand and Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the HouseFairy-tale Bodies: Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame PrinceMysterious Bodies: Solving and De-solving Disability in the Fin-de-Siècle MysteryAfterwordAppendix: FiguresIndex
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society ; 8 |
Zusatzinfo | 4 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80207-687-5 / 1802076875 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80207-687-5 / 9781802076875 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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