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T1 'Normal' Bodies: Disability and Victorian Ideologies in Fiction
A1 Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel
K1 Literatura inglesa - S.XIX
K1 Personas con discapacidad - En la literatura
AB The advent of Disability Studies as a critical area that aims to explore and re-thinkcultural and literary representations of the disabled body, has supposed a reassessmentof the extent until which the Victorian era has had an impact on the creation of what weconsider 'normal'. In his 1995 monograph Enforcing Normalcy, in fact, Lennard J. Davispointed out clearly that the concept of normalcy in itself is deeply rooted in Victoriansocial and medical expectations. Following this trend of thought, critics like MarthaStoddard Holmes or Karen Bourier have reconsidered fictional representations ofdisability and their complexity in relation with several aspects of Victorian literature.In this paper I aim to explore some of these aspects by addressing the previouslymentioned relationship between normalcy and the disabled body in Victorian literatureand fiction.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38911
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38911
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 24 ene 2026