LEADER 02693nam 2200637 450 001 9910809944903321 005 20230803035235.0 010 $a0-8214-4451-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000198695 035 $a(EBL)1743641 035 $a(OCoLC)884016917 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001388031 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11825003 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001388031 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11384228 035 $a(PQKB)11116247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904198 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000198695 100 $a20140814h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading Victorian deafness $esigns and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /$fJennifer Esmail 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 225 1 $aSeries in Victorian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2034-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion 330 $a Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. The Victorians understood signed languages in multiple, and 410 0$aSeries in Victorian Studies 606 $aDeaf$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aDeaf$xMeans of communication$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSign language$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDeaf in literature 615 0$aDeaf$xHistory 615 0$aDeaf$xMeans of communication$xHistory 615 0$aSign language$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDeaf in literature. 676 $a305.9/082094109034 700 $aEsmail$b Jennifer$f1979-$01714465 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809944903321 996 $aReading Victorian deafness$94108287 997 $aUNINA