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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- author.

Series:

Series in Victorian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Deaf people.

Deaf people--Means of communication--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Sign language--History--19th century.

Sign language.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Deaf people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 languages in multiple, and

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821444511

0821444514

OCLC:

884016917