The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction /
Craton, Lillian.
Amherst, NY : Cambria Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Physical difference and the nineteenth century -- Littleness in the novels of Charles Dickens -- The widest lap: fatness and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction -- Female masculinity in sensational fiction, 1860-1890 -- The mutable body and the looking glass -- Conclusion: reflecting on the odd body.
English fiction
Human body in literature.
Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
People with disabilities in literature.