TY - BOOK AU - Walker Gore,Clare TI - Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel T2 - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC SN - 9781474455015 U1 - 823/.809353 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Disabilities in literature KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - People with disabilities in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens --; Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins --; Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge --; Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James --; Coda --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fictionOffers new insights into how disability shapes plot in nineteenth-century fictionInvestigates the impact of a developing social category on the form of the novel, opening up ways of thinking about the intersection between novelistic characterisation and categories of social organisationOffers new readings of well-known novels by major writers such as Dickens, Eliot and James and brings these texts into conversation with work by more marginalised figures such as Yonge and Craik, considering the relationship between canon formation and the representation of disabilityThis book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters. It demonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, showing how attention to disability sheds new light on texts’ arrangement and use of bodies. It also argues that the representation of the disabled body shaped and signalled different generic traditions in nineteenth-century fiction. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of major writers including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot and Henry James, as well as exploring lesser known writers such as Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474455039 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474455039 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474455039/original ER -