Woeful afflictions: disability and sentimentality in Victorian America

Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures,...

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1. Verfasser: Klages, Mary (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia [u.a.] Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung:Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals in the United States from the 1830s through the 1890s
This book will interest anyone concerned with disability studies and the social construction of the body, with the history of education and of public institutional care in the United States, and with autobiographical writings
Beschreibung:250 S. Ill.
ISBN:0812234995

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