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T1 Of Narrators and Legs: Representing Bodies in the Victorian Novel.
A1 Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel
K1 Literatura inglesa - S. XIX
K1 Personas con discapacidad - En la literatura
AB From the last decades of the twentieth century onwards, the representational value of the human body in literature has been an important component of literary criticism. In the field of Victorianism, for instance, many of the most significant literary studies carried out during the 90s deal with the body. Seminal studies such as Anne Cvetkovich’s Mixed Feelings (1992), a re-definition of Sensation Fiction and its perceived dangers, and Sally Shuttleworth’s Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996), a mapping of Victorian psychology in literary texts, have had the body, both of readers, characters, and authors, at their core.In this paper I seek to re-address Victorian novels by positioning the theories at workwithin Disability Studies alongside Victorian popular (pseudo)scientific notions of thebody, to show how a methodology that uses this seemingly anachronistic combination of frameworks may be, in fact, interdependent and beneficial to study the concept of the body, and relevant to a re-thinking of Victorian texts.
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38905
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38905
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026