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People with disabilities in literature

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Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function.

People with disabilities in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.

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"Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love."--Publisher's description. The author argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media.

Disabled Persons --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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This volume takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It demonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, demonstrating how attention to disability sheds new light on texts' arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction.

English fiction --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Disabilities in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective.

Literature, Modern --- Blind in literature. --- Blindness in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- History and criticism.