Woeful Afflictions : : Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America / / Mary Klages.
From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of representations of disability, from popular fiction to the r...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Disability and Sentimentality
- 1. The Semiotics of Disability
- 2. Institutional Meanings for Blind Bodies
- 3. Sentimental Posters
- 4. The Angel in the Text
- 5. Institutional Sentimentalism
- 6. Laura Bridgman
- 7. Can the Blind Girl Speak?
- 8. Helen Keller
- 9. Redefining Disability and Sentimentality: The Miracle Worker
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments