Fictions of affliction : physical disability in Victorian culture / Martha Stoddard Holmes.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004], ©2004.

xiv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.

Melodramatic bodies -- Marital melodramas : disabled women and Victorian marriage plots -- "My old delightful sensation" : Wilkie Collins and the disabling of melodrama -- An object for compassion, an enemy to the state : imagining disabled boys and men -- Melodramas of the self : auto/biographies of Victorians with physical disabilities.