Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7583-9052
Date of Award
12-14-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Edward Christie
Second Advisor
Mark Noble
Third Advisor
Paul Schmidt
Abstract
I have created a digital archive documenting literary works that feature disabled characters. Using distant reading within this digital archive provides insight into the representation of disability in literature, aids in creating a disability literary canon, and prioritizes disability within the realm of critical literary studies. Despite the widening of canon and the increasing visibility of disability studies in the academy, there needs to be an archive that features works with disabled characters. Literary visualizations created through distant reading provide a new way to read texts. My thesis, “Combatting Disability Erasure in Literary Studies: How a Literary Archive and Distant Reading Can Give Disabled Characters the Attention They Have Been Denied,” will explore how distant reading would add an unprecedented dimension to a disability literary archive. Disabled characters have been present in prominent and now out-of-print literature for generations, but their presence has been cast to the periphery of storylines.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/32628340
Recommended Citation
Shea, Barbara C., "Combatting Disability Erasure in Literary Studies: How a Literary Archive and Distant Reading Can Give Disabled Characters the Attention They Have Been Denied." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2022.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/32628340
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