Transient disabilities: didactic illness, corrective pain and enforced care relations in the “Golden Age” of children's literature

• Main Author: Khaira, Tasreen Kaur
• Other Authors: Katherine Blyn Wakely-Mulroney
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/167067
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hegemonic visions of what the human body and mind should be pervade the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, especially literature that caters to child readers. The construction of normalcy with regards to the mind and body in the nineteenth century, coupled with the growin...