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Woeful Afflictions

Hardcover • 1999 • English

Woeful Afflictions

By Mary Klages

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About the book

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 representations of disability, from popular fiction to the reports of institutions established for the education and rehabilitation of disabled people, the equation of disability and sentimentality served a variety of social functions, from ensuring the contin...Show more

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ISBN

9780812234992

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Woeful Afflictions

Format

Hardcover

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