Reading Victorian Deafness
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 Har...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, OH :
Ohio University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Series in Victorian Studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30795709*spi |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 311 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
