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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452310603321

Autore

Larrissy Edward

Titolo

The blind and blindness in literature of the Romantic period / / Edward Larrissy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-7486-5169-1

1-281-25193-3

9786611251932

0-7486-3201-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.93527109034

Soggetti

Blindness in literature

Blind in literature

Romanticism - England

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Enigma of the Blind; Chapter 2 The Celtic Bard in Ireland and Britain: Blindness and Second Sight; Chapter 3 Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind; Chapter 4 Edifying Tales; Chapter 5 Wordsworth's Transitions; Chapter 6 Coleridge, Keats and a Full Perception; Chapter 7 Byron and Shelley: The Blindness of Reason; Chapter 8 Mary Shelley: Blind Fathers and the Magnetic Globe: Frankenstein with Valperga and The Last Man; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject  Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period.