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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Representations: health, disability, culture and society |
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Representations (Liverpool, England)
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Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Disabilities in literature.
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Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Handicap dans la littérature.
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18.05 English literature. (NL-LeOCL)077611977
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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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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: HINGSTON, KYLEE-ANNE. ARTICULATING BODIES. [Place of publication not identified] : LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2019 1789620759 (OCoLC)1089410481 |
| ISBN |
9781789624953 (electronic bk.) |
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1789624959 (electronic bk.) |
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1789620759 |
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9781789620757 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000066723764 |
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AU@ 000067631503 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999892186505765 |
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