Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America by Mary Klages
Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America

Mary Klages

Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America

Mary Klages

256 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of represe...

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