The children's outstanding, "pathognomonic," fundamentaldisorder, Kanner concludes, is a failure to develop the usual amount of socialawareness and an "inability to relate in the ordinary way to people and situ
Hemans here astutely balances apologizing to Murray for the failure of herRestoration, mildly criticizing him for failing to recognize a potentially lucrative market for the poem at Oxford and Cambridge, and reassuring him thatModern Greecewill be profitable if sold to the correct audience. Hemans’s...
Victorian sensation fiction relies upon the absence of the mother figure as a whole: the mother’s absence from the family or her or failure to live up to her proper role helps propel the plots of many novels in this genre, fromThe Woman in White through Lady Audley’s Secret to East ...
<18>There are, arguably, two places in the text that may appear to challenge my reading of Darcy as a character on the spectrum: his housekeeper’s testimony that Darcy was “the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted, boy in the world” (161), and his long-standing friendship with the...
<4>This article discusses how the varied historical modes of road travel are analogous to competing Victorian constructions of sexuality, a competition which ultimately defeats Tess. But rather than just the means for her tragic failure and the site of her victimhood, the road also provides the ...