In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Consideri...

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1. Verfasser:	Tilley, Heather 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
Ausgabe:	First paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 109
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Blind authors Blind > Books and reading People with visual disabilities > Books and reading Blindness in literature Blind in literature People with visual disabilities and the arts Blindheit > Motiv Literatur Englisch Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used textual means to shape their own identities, the book argues that blindness was also a significant trope through which writers reflected on the act of crafting literary form. Supported by an illuminating range of archival material (including unpublished letters from Wordsworth's circle, early ophthalmologic texts, embossed books, and autobiographies) this is a rich account of blind people's experience, and reveals the close, and often surprising personal engagement that canonical writers had with visual impairment. Drawing on the insights of disability studies and cultural phenomenology, Tilley highlights the importance of attending to embodied experience in the production and consumption of texts.
Beschreibung:	xiii, 275 Seiten 7 Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781316645444