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Sensational deviance : disability in nineteenth-century sensation fiction
- Title
- Sensational deviance : disability in nineteenth-century sensation fiction / Heidi Logan.
- Author
- Logan, Heidi
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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- Description
- x, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period's disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre's further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics. "--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 39
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 39.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
- Contents
- Wilkie Collins and Disabled Identities. Hide and Seek (1854) ; The Dead Secret (1857) ; Poor Miss Finch (1871-2) ; The Law and the Lady (1875) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Disabled Identities. The Trail of the Serpent (1860-1) ; Lady Audley's Secret (1861-2) and John Marchmont's Legacy (1862-3) ; The Lady's Mile (1866) and One Thing Needful (1886).
- Call Number
- JFE 19-54
- ISBN
- 1138319902
- 9781138319905
- OCLC
- 1055685592
- Author
- Logan, Heidi, author.
- Title
- Sensational deviance : disability in nineteenth-century sensation fiction / Heidi Logan.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 39Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 39.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-54