Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Download or read book Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel written by Clare Walker Gore and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.