Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / / Clare Walker Gore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Walker Gore, Clare,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens --; Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins --; Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge --; Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James --; Coda --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474455039; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474455039
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clare Walker Gore.

Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fictionOffers new insights into how disability shapes plot in nineteenth-century fictionInvestigates the impact of a developing social category on the form of the novel, opening up ways of thinking about the intersection between novelistic characterisation and categories of social organisationOffers new readings of well-known novels by major writers such as Dickens, Eliot and James and brings these texts into conversation with work by more marginalised figures such as Yonge and Craik, considering the relationship between canon formation and the representation of disabilityThis book 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, showing 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. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of major writers including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Henry James, as well as exploring lesser known writers such as Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik.