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The blind and blindness in literature of the romantic period / Edward Larrissy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larrissy, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blindness in literature.
- Blind in literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period.
- Contents:
- COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Enigma of the Blind; Chapter 2 The Celtic Bard in Ireland and Britain: Blindness and Second Sight; Chapter 3 Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind; Chapter 4 Edifying Tales; Chapter 5 Wordsworth's Transitions; Chapter 6 Coleridge, Keats and a Full Perception; Chapter 7 Byron and Shelley: The Blindness of Reason; Chapter 8 Mary Shelley: Blind Fathers and the Magnetic Globe: Frankenstein with Valperga and The Last Man; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5169-1
- 1-281-25193-3
- 9786611251932
- 0-7486-3201-8
- OCLC:
- 476144735
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