The Victorian freak show
Subtitle: the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction
By: Lillian E. Craton.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604976533
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; People with disabilities in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Physical difference in the nineteenth century; title: Littleness in the novels of Charles Dickens; title: The widest lap: fatness and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction; title: Female masculinity in sensational fiction 1860-1890; title: The mutable body and the looking-glass; title: Coda: reflecting on the odd body.