Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i>
Responding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology. By applying this critical disability framework to depictions of time in Victorian...
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| description | Responding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology. By applying this critical disability framework to depictions of time in Victorian literature, my paper reveals the generative potential of nonnormative understandings of time in two foundational and widely studied texts: Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i>. In each text, the presence of disability allows for the resistance to and subversion of hegemonic (and genre-based) modes of temporality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14ab37005aec4c77a96fe829d9cc32fc2023-11-19T01:22:27ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872023-07-011246410.3390/h12040064Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i>Drumlin N. M. Crape0Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, CanadaResponding to ableist and regimented notions of time, disabled activists and disability studies scholars alike have embraced “crip time” as a modality that better accounts for the ways disability transforms chronology. By applying this critical disability framework to depictions of time in Victorian literature, my paper reveals the generative potential of nonnormative understandings of time in two foundational and widely studied texts: Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i>. In each text, the presence of disability allows for the resistance to and subversion of hegemonic (and genre-based) modes of temporality.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/4/64crip timetemporalitydisability studiesVictorian disabilityWilkie CollinsCharlotte Brontë |
| spellingShingle | Drumlin N. M. Crape Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> Humanities crip time temporality disability studies Victorian disability Wilkie Collins Charlotte Brontë |
| title | Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> |
| title_full | Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> |
| title_fullStr | Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> |
| title_full_unstemmed | Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> |
| title_short | Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White</i> |
| title_sort | out of time disabling normative time in charlotte bronte s i jane eyre i and wilkie collins s i the woman in white i |
| topic | crip time temporality disability studies Victorian disability Wilkie Collins Charlotte Brontë |
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