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Supporting Characters: Prosthesis And Aesthetic Technologies Of Disability In The Victorian Novel, Rebecca L. Mccann May 2022

Supporting Characters: Prosthesis And Aesthetic Technologies Of Disability In The Victorian Novel, Rebecca L. Mccann

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the production of physical disability and the function of prosthesis in nineteenth-century British fiction. My intervention in disability studies readings of Victorian literature attends to the prosthetic object and prosthetic body not only as the dual products of medicine and art, but also as catalytic elements of fiction and culture. I read reciprocal developments in medical technology and disabled characterization in the Victorian novel to demonstrate how the artistic translation of the prosthetic object effected a set of criteria for defining people through both bodies and things and, in so doing, revealed the ways in which the …


Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2011

Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.


Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2010

Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2010

(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.


(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2009

(De)Constructing Jane: Converting Austen In Film Responses, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2003

My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.


My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz Dec 2002

My Worldy Goods Do Thee Endow: Widowhood, Economic Conservatism, And The Mid- And Late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz Jan 2000

Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz

Department of English Publications

No abstract provided.


Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz Dec 1999

Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.