Scholar Ria Cheyne notes that a shift has occurred in how disabled characters or disabled literary texts are analyzed in the contemporary period. In earlier periods, the primary consideration was how the disabled characters or text in question made the reader feel. In the contemporary period, shifting attitudes around otherness, disability, illness, etc. have now sparked a second element of consideration. This second element is that of meta-feelings or meta-emotions. That is, how we feel about our initial feelings towards a certain representation of a disability in a text.