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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Esmail is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University! Canada. She has published research on the representation of deafness in Victorian literature and culture in Sign Language Studies! Victorian Poetry! and ELH: English Literary History. She also coedited! with Christopher Keep! a special issue of the Victorian Review on the topic of Victorian Disability. Klappentext 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. "An extensively and assiduously researched study of Victorian Deafness as a multi-layered cultural entity … Reading Victorian Deafness makes a groundbreaking contribution to Disability Studies at large and Victorianist Disability Studies specifically." - Martha Stoddard-Holmes, author of Fiction of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Zusammenfassung 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, this book argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain.