On Victorian Disability

Speaking of disability history, the Victorian Review has a theme issue out on disability history.  There look to be a number of excellent articles.  Here is the TOC:

Forum: Victorian Prostheses

Genie Babb
The Prosthetic Body

Gregory Brophy
The Sphygmograph

Fiona Coll
The Victorian Automaton as Imaginary Prosthetic

Nadja Durbach
Baby Incubators and the Prosthetic Womb

Anna Henchman
The Telescope

Tamara Ketabgian
Calculating Divinity: Babbage’s Engine, Spiritual Intelligence, and the Senses

Ivan Kreilkamp
Anthroprosthesis, or Prosthetic Dogs

Don Randall
The Imperial Boy as Prosthesis
 
Articles

GUEST EDITORS: CHRISTOPHER KEEP AND JENNIFER ESMAIL

Esmail & Keep
Victorian Disability: Introduction

Martha Stoddard Holmes
“Happy and Yet Pitying Tears”: Deafness and Affective Disjuncture in Dickens’s “Doctor Marigold”

Neil Pemberton
Deafness and Holiness: Home Missions, Deaf Congregations, and Natural Language 1860–1890

Vanessa Warne
“To invest a cripple with peculiar interest”: Artificial Legs and Upper-Class Amputees at Mid-Century

Tamara S. Wagner
Home Work: The Ambiguous Valorization of “Affliction” in Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House

Karen Bourrier
“The Spirit of a Man and the Limbs of a Cripple”: Sentimentality, Disability, and Masculinity in Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe

Eitan Bar-Yosef
The “Deaf Traveller,” the “Blind Traveller,” and Constructions of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
 
Reviews

Stefan Berger
Robert J. C. Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity

Gordon Bigelow
Julia M. Wright, Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature

Julie Codell
Lara Kriegel, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture

June Sturrock

Antonia Losano, The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature

Joy Dixon
Joanna Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall

Vicki Macknight
Dinah Birch, Our Victorian Education

Lana Dalley
Krista Lysack, Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing

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