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Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives

Tankard, Alex

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Series: Literary Disability Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3319714457
ISBN13: 9783319714455
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 15 2018
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Demonstrates that recognisable, politicised, and self-aware disabled identities were possible one hundred years before the modern Disability Rights movement Argues that emerging biomedical model of tuberculosis began to undermine the dominance of sentimental, Romantic, and religious models of consumptive identity Argues that when the right social and cultural conditions aligned, these remarkable disabled identities could even be found in bestselling or canonical Victorian novels

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