Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

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Contents Introduction 1 1 Melodramatic Bodies 16 2 Marital Melodramas DisabledWomenand Victrrrian MarriagePlots 34 3 "MyOld Delightful Sensation" WilkieCollinsand theDisablingof Melodrama 74 4 An Object for Compassion, An Enemy to the State Imagining DisabledBoysand Men 94 5 Melodramas of the Self Auto/biographiesof Victrrrians with PhysicalDisabilities 1 33 Conclusion 1 91 Appendix PhysicallyDisabledCharactersin Nineteenth-Century British Literature 1 97 Notes 201 Works Cited 21 1 Index 223 ...