Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing

ISBN-13: 9781316645444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 298 str.

Heather Tilley

Opis

Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.

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Recenzje

'Tilley brilliantly outlines the varied ways in which the conventional association of blindness with illiteracy was challenged throughout the nineteenth century - from the development of raised print books, to the publication of early autobiographies by blind writers, to the complex and ambivalent portayals of visual impairment by major authors, including Wordsworth, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Frances Browne.' Jonathan Taylor, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Brontë; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.