02726nam 2200649 450 991046450870332120200520144314.00-8214-4451-4(CKB)3710000000198695(EBL)1743641(OCoLC)884016917(SSID)ssj0001388031(PQKBManifestationID)11825003(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001388031(PQKBWorkID)11384228(PQKB)11116247(MiAaPQ)EBC1743641(Au-PeEL)EBL1743641(CaPaEBR)ebr10904198(EXLCZ)99371000000019869520140814h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading Victorian deafness signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /Jennifer EsmailAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (311 p.)Series in Victorian StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2034-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion 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 languages in multiple, and Series in Victorian StudiesDeafGreat BritainHistory19th centuryDeafMeans of communicationGreat BritainHistory19th centurySign languageHistory19th centuryEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismDeaf in literatureElectronic books.DeafHistoryDeafMeans of communicationHistorySign languageHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Deaf in literature.305.9/082094109034Esmail Jennifer1979-996795MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464508703321Reading Victorian deafness2285417UNINA