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Online Resources

• Barnes, Colin. The Disability Archive UK. Leeds: University of Leeds. 2013.
• Borsay, Anne and David Turner. Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948. Swansea University. 2011-2016.
• Carpenter, Mary Wilson. “A Cultural History of Ophthalmology in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.
• The Disability History Museum. Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc. 2001-2013.
• Mossman, Mark and Martha Stoddard Holmes. “Critical Transformations: Disability and the Body in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 4.2 (Summer 2008).
• English Heritage Archive. n.d.

Books

• Adams, Rachel. Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
• Bailin, Miriam. The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Baynton, Douglas C. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Bourke, Joanna. Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Carpenter, Mary Wilson. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010.
• Craton, Lillian. The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction. London: Cambria Press, 2009.
• Davis, Lennard J. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions. New York: NYU Press, 2002.
• ——. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. New York: Verso, 1995.
• Durbach, Nadja. Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture.. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
• Edwards, R.A.R. Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
• Esmail, Jennifer. Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013.
• Frawley, Maria H. Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Gitter, Elisabeth. The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl. New York: Picador, 2002.
• Groce, Nora Ellen. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
• Hutchinson, Iain. A History of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2007.
• Lane, Harlan L. When the Mind Hears: a History of the Deaf. New York: Random House,1989.
• Linker, Beth. War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
• McDonagh, Patrick. Idiocy: a Cultural History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.
• Mihm, Stephen, Katherine Ott, and David H. Serlin, eds. Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics.. New York: NYU Press, 2002.
• Mitchell, David and Sharon Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Mossman, Mark. Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• O’Connor, Erin. Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
• Schweik, Susan Marie. The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York: NYU Press, 2010.
• Shell, Marc. Stutter . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Stoddard Holmes, Martha. Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
• Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Special Journal Issues and Edited Collections

• Bolt, David, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson, eds. The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
• Borsay, Anne and Peter Shapley, eds. Medicine, Charity, and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2007.
• Esmail, Jennifer and Christopher Keep. Special Issue on Victorian Disability. Victorian Review 25.2 (Fall 2009).
• Longmore, Paul K. and Lauri Umansky, eds. The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
• Mitchell, David T. and Synder, Sharon L., eds. The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
• Mossman, Mark and Martha Stoddard Holmes. “Critical Transformations: Disability and the Body in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 4 no 2 (Summer 2008).
• Tromp, Marlene. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain. Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008.

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters

• Aicardi, Christine. “The Analytical Spirit and the Paris Institution for the Deaf-Mutes, 1760-1830.” History of Science 57 (2009): 175-221.
• Bourrier, Karen. “Reading Laura Bridgman: Literacy and Disability in Dickens’s American Notes.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 40 (2009): 37–60.
• Carpenter, Mary Wilson. “Blinding the Hero.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17.3 (2006): 52–68.
• Esmail, Jennifer. “The Power of Deaf Poetry: The Exhibition of Literacy and the Nineteenth-Century Sign Language Debates.” Sign Language Studies 8.4 (2008): 348–368.
• Ferguson, Christine. “‘Gooble-Gabble, One of Us’: Grotesque Rhetoric and the Victorian Freak Show.” Victorian Review 23.2 (December 1, 1997): 244–250.
• ---. “Sensational Dependence: Prosthesis and Affect in Dickens and Braddon.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 19.1 (March 2008): 1–25.
• Flint, Kate. “Disability and Difference.” The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins. Ed. Jenny Bourne Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Handley, Neil. “Artificial Eyes and the Artificalization of the Human Face.” In Carsten Timmermann and Julie Anderson, Eds. Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 97-111.
• Jain, Sarah. “The Prosthetic Imagination: Enabling and Disabling the Prosthesis Trope.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 24 (1999): 31-54.
• Joseph, Gerhard and Herbert Sussman. “Prefiguring the Posthuman: Dickens and Prosthesis.” Victorian Literature and Culture. 32.2 (2004): 617–628.
• Hingston, Kylee-Anne. “Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince.” Special Issue of Women's Writing: Re-evaluating Dinah Mulock Craik. Women’s Writing. 20.2 (2013): forthcoming.
• --. “‘Skins to Jump Into’: The Slipperiness of Identity and the Body in Wilkie Collins’s No Name.” Victorian Literature and Culture. 40.1 (2012): 117-135.
• Krentz, Christopher. “A ‘Vacant Receptacle’? Blind Tom, Cognitive Difference, and Pedagogy.” PMLA 120.2 (March 1, 2005): 552–557.
• Lacom, Cindy. “‘The Time Is Sick and Out of Joint’: Physical Disability in Victorian England.” PMLA 120, no. 2 (March 1, 2005): 547–552.
• Marchbanks, Paul. "From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens's Novels (Part 1)" Dickens Quarterly 23.1 (2006): 3-13.
• Mossman, Mark. “Representations of the Abnormal Body in The Moonstone.” Victorian Literature and Culture 37.2 (2009): 483–500.
• Mossman, Mark and Martha Stoddard Holmes. "Disability in Victorian Sensation Fiction." A Companion to Sensation Fiction. Ed. Pamela K. Gilbert. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell, 2011.
• Rodas, Julia Miele. “On Blindness.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 3.2 (July 1, 2009): 115–130.
• ——. “‘On the Spectrum’: Rereading Contact and Affect in Jane Eyre.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 4.2 (2008).
• ——. “Tiny Tim, Blind Bertha, and the Resistance of Miss Mowcher: Charles Dickens and the Uses of Disability.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 34 (2004): 51–97.
• Samuels, Ellen. “‘A Complication of Complaints’: Untangling Disability, Race, and Gender in William and Ellen Craft’s Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. 31.3 (Fall 2006): 15-47.
• --. “From Melville to Eddie Murphy: The Disability Con in American Literature and Film.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 8.1, (March 2006): 61-82.
• Stoddard Holmes, Martha. "Victorian Fictions of Interdependency: Gaskell, Craik, and Yonge."Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 1.2 (October 2007): 29-41.
• Tilley, Heather. “The Sentimental Touch: Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop and the Feeling Reader." Journal of Victorian Culture. 16.1 (2011): 226-41.
• --.“Wordsworth’s Glasses: The Materiality of Blindness in the Romantic Imagination”, in Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture. Ed. by Luisa Calè and Patrizia Di Bello. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
• --.“Frances Browne, the ‘Blind Poetess’: Towards a Poetics of Blind Writing.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Special Issue ‘Blindness and Literature’. Ed. Georgina Kleege. 3.2 (2009): 147-61.
• Wagner, Tamara S. “Phrenology and Representation of Physical Deviance in Victorian Fiction.” Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English. 5 (March 2002).
• Warne, Vanessa. “‘If You Should Ever Want an Arm’: Disability and Dependency in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Man That Was Used Up’.” Atenea 25.1 (June 2005): 95–105.
• ——. “‘So That the Sense of Touch May Supply the Want of Sight’: Blind Reading and Nineteenth-Century British Print Culture.” Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.