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Author Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- author.

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

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Series in Victorian Studies
Series in Victorian Studies.
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.
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Subject Deaf -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Deaf.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Deaf -- Means of communication -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Deaf -- Means of communication.
Sign language -- History -- 19th century.
Sign language.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Deaf in literature.
Deaf in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
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)
0821444514 (e-book)
9780821420348