Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Series in Victorian Studies
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Series in Victorian Studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Deaf -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Deaf. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Deaf -- Means of communication -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Deaf -- Means of communication. |
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Sign language -- History -- 19th century.
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Sign language. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Deaf in literature.
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Deaf in literature. |
Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- Reading Victorian deafness : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2013 xi, 285 pages 9780821420348 |
ISBN |
9780821444511 (e-book) |
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0821444514 (e-book) |
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9780821420348 |
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