Anecdotes of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Augustus Seiss
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Perkins School for the Blind. Library
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kazlitt ARVINE
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 748
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Chambers
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 538
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kazlitt Arvine
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 732
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-06-19
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748632018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. In detailed studies of literary works he goes on to show how the topic is central to an understanding of British and Irish Romantic literature. While he considers the influence of Milton and the 'Ossian' poems, as well as of philosophers, including Locke, Diderot, Berkeley and Thomas Reid, much of the book is taken up with new readings of writers of the period. These include canonical authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats and Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as less well-known writers such as Charlotte Brooke and Ann Batten Cristall. There is also a chapter on the popular genre of improving tales for children by writers such as Barbara Hofland and Mary Sherwood. Larrissy finds that, despite the nostalgia for a bardic age of inward vision, the chief emphasis in the period is on the compensations of enhanced sensitivity to music and words. This compensation becomes associated with the loss and gain involved in the modernity of a post-bardic age. Representations of blindness and the blind are found to elucidate a tension at the heart of the Romantic period, between the desire for immediacy of vision on the one hand and, on the other, the historical self-consciousness which always attends it.
Author: Heidi Logan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 042984347X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period’s disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre’s further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics.