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Author Tilley, Heather, 1981- author.

Title Blindness and writing : from Wordsworth to Gissing / Heather Tilley
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 109
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Embodying Nineteenth-Century Blindness; 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's Poor Miss Finch8 Blindness, Writing, and the Failure of the Imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Blind -- Books and reading.
Blind authors.
Blind in literature.
Blindness in literature.
People with visual disabilities -- Books and reading.
People with visual disabilities and the arts.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Blind authors
Blind -- Books and reading
Blind in literature
Blindness in literature
People with visual disabilities and the arts
People with visual disabilities -- Books and reading
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108302807
1108302807