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

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

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Karen Bourrier

184 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender literary sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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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. M...

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