Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America - Mary Klages - Books - University of Pennsylvania Press - 9780812234992 - July 1, 1999
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Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America

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Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in general, and blindness in particular, in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals from the 1830s through the 1890s.

256 pages, 10 illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 1, 1999
ISBN13 9780812234992
Publishers University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 6 mm   ·   571 g

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