Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Heather Tilley is Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.
Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.
Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.
Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.
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'This critical analysis makes an important contribution to future scholarship on the lived experience of blindness and visual impairment. Blindness and Writing is certainly a book that all who are interested in ophthalmologic discourse should read.' Denise Saul, The British Society for Literature and Science
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