List of contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of illustrations viii
5. List of contributors ix
6. Series editors’ foreword xi
7. Foreword xii
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I: Attitudes
10. 1 Restoration to usefulness 21
11. 2 Imperial lives 38
12. 3 Disabling the author in mid-Victorian realist fiction 55
13. Part II: Interventions
14. 4 Medicalising deafness in Victorian London 73
15. 5 Drunkenness, degeneration and disability in England 92
16. 6 Victorian medical awareness of childhood language disabilities 110
17. 7 ‘Happiness and usefulness increased’ 126
18. Part III: Legacies
19. 8 The disabled child in an industrial metropolis 145
20. 9 The Panopticon 164
21. 10 Allowed to be idle 177
22. Index 195