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