Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they

"The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in Engl

Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of di

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of this era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the

This volume takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled charact