Sensational bodies: representations of race and disability in sensation fiction

This chapter places race and disability in dialogue to highlight the complex, often contradictory, negotiations of exclusionary discourse within sensation narratives of the 1860s. The first half of the chapter discusses Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Octoroon (1861–62), as a sensational text which pla...

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Main Author: Anne-Marie Beller
Format: Default Book chapter
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/24929892.v1
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