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Martin Halliwell
280 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780754602651
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
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Martin Halliwell
280 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780754602651
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky,...