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The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Karen BourrierThe analysis yokes together historical and narrative concerns, showing how developments in nineteenth-century masculinity led to a formal innovation in literature: the focalization or narration of the novel through the perspective of a weak or disabled man. The Measure of Manliness charts new territory in showing how feeling and loquacious bodies were increasingly seen as sick bodies throughout the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in disability studies, gender and masculinity studies, the theorization of sympathy and affect, the recovery of women's writing and popular fiction, the history of medicine and technology, and queer theory.

- 978-0-472-12083-3 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05248-6 (paper)
- 978-0-472-07248-4 (hardcover)