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842668
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Klages, Mary.
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| Title & Author
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Woeful afflictions : : disability and sentimentality in Victorian America /\ Mary Klages.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, ©1999.
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250 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0812234995
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: 9780812234992
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
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| Abstract
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Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals in the United States from the 1830s through the 1890s.
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This book will interest anyone concerned with disability studies and the social construction of the body, with the history of education and of public institutional care in the United States, and with autobiographical writings.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in mass media-- History.
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People with disabilities-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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People with disabilities-- United States-- Public opinion.
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Public opinion-- United States.
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Public opinion-- United States.
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Behinderter Mensch
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in mass media.
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People with disabilities-- Public opinion.
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People with disabilities.
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Public opinion.
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Geschichte 1800-1900.
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Disabled Persons-- history.
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Literature, Modern.
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Mass Media.
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Social Perception.
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Social Support.
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United States.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.4/0973/09034
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| LC Classification
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HV1553.K53 1999
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| NLM classification
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1999 K-665
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HV 1553K63w 1999
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