Disability and the Gothic : The Nineteenth Century
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in the Gothic
ISBN-10
1009300903
ISBN-13
9781009300902
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 12th, 2026
Print length
82 Pages
Weight
134 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 23.00 x 1.00 cms
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Disability is central to the Gothic imagination; but few accounts of Gothic literature interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability embodiment, or of the socially determined aspects of disability. This Element brings disability theory to the reading of nineteenth-century Gothic literature.
Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Critical Disability Studies, and the manner in which Gothic has been integral to the evolution of disability theory. It shows the increasing centrality of the Gothic to the development of Critical Disability Studies, and describes the emergence of the subfield of Gothic Disability Studies. The second chapter and third chapters offer close readings of particular texts, showing how Gothic bodies and minds articulate and shift their relationship to the aesthetic and affective frameworks of the nineteenth century. While disability sometimes represents the 'other' in Gothic literature, this positioning far from exhausts the ways in which disability is presented in this genre.
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