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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Disabled Subjects: Disability Gender and Ethical Agency in Victorian Realism
Abstract
dc:description"While many previous studies of Victorian disability have focused on non-literary works and melodramatic forms, the specific focus on realist fiction offers a fresh perspective on disability's ethical function. Realism's investment in interiority disrupts the often cliched association between physical disability and emotional excess, providing a de-sensationalized though no less ethically urgent depiction of disability. The foremost literary critical goal of this study is to describe the complex ways in which physical difference could stand for ethical authority, making the ""disabled subject"" the repository of exceptional character-building powers in Victorian fiction."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Fratz, Deborah Mae
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Lauren M.E.Goodlad
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3314769
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81438