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  • Conflicting Models of Care for People with Mental Disabilities in Charles Dickens’s Fiction and Journalism

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    Ray-Barruel, Gillian
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    Ray-Barruel, Gillian A.
    Year published
    2015
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    In contrast to the mid-Victorian medical discourse extolling the benefits of asylums and residential training schools for children with mental impairments, contemporary literary representations criticize the institutional provision of care, instead favouring a community solution, which indeed was the predominant model throughout the Victorian era. The article explores representations of caring in the novels and journalism of Charles Dickens in comparison to the models of care available for people with mental disabilities in England at the time. Dickens's support for the disadvantaged is legendary, but the subject of care for ...
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    In contrast to the mid-Victorian medical discourse extolling the benefits of asylums and residential training schools for children with mental impairments, contemporary literary representations criticize the institutional provision of care, instead favouring a community solution, which indeed was the predominant model throughout the Victorian era. The article explores representations of caring in the novels and journalism of Charles Dickens in comparison to the models of care available for people with mental disabilities in England at the time. Dickens's support for the disadvantaged is legendary, but the subject of care for people with mental disabilities in his work is more nuanced than has hitherto been shown.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
    Volume
    9
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2015.6
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    © 2015 Liverpool University Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
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    British and Irish Literature
    Cultural Studies
    Literary Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/99063
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