{"product_id":"9783319714455","title":"Literary Disability Studies: Invalid Lives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLiterary Disability Studies: Invalid Lives\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eTankard, Alex\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, \u003ci\u003eInvalid Lives\u003c\/i\u003e examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. \u003ci\u003eInvalid Lives\u003c\/i\u003e asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel \u003ci\u003eShips That Pass in the Night\u003c\/i\u003e represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-02-15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319714455\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-71446-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 238\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44676907696268,"sku":"9783319714455","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319714455.jpg?v=1776695952","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319714455","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}