Blindness and Writing - From Wordsworth to Gissing

Informationen zum Autor Heather Tilley is Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used texts to shape their own identities! she argues that blindness was also a means by which writers reflected on crafting literary form. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Heather Tilley, Heather (Birkbeck College Tilley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316645444
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64544-4
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Disability: social aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Other manufacturing technologies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form