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Paperback The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel Book

ISBN: 0472052489

ISBN13: 9780472052486

The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

(Part of the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series)

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The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of male characters with disabilities, a phenomenon that author Karen Bourrier sees as a response to the rise of a new Victorian culture of industry and...

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