 | Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America Subjects: Handicapped -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Handicapped -- United States -- Public Opinion; Handicapped in mass media -- History; Handicapped in literature -- History and criticism; Public opinion -- United States; 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. Mary Klages is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
