Reading Victorian deafness : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture / Jennifer Esmail.

Author
Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
  • ©2013
Description
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

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Subject(s)
Series
Series in Victorian Studies [More in this series]
Summary note
Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. The Victorians understood signed.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780821444511 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0821444514 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0821420348
  • 9780821420348
LCCN
2012044038
OCLC
889271903
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