Reading Victorian deafness : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture / / Jennifer Esmail

• Autore: Esmail Jennifer <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/082094109034
• Soggetto topico: Deaf - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Deaf - Means of communication - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Sign language - History - 19th century; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Deaf in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading Victorian deafness
• ISBN: 0-8214-4451-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786625603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Victorian Studies