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" Reading Victorian deafness : "
Jennifer Esmail
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BL
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660153
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dltt
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Esmail, Jennifer,1979-
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Reading Victorian deafness : : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /\ Jennifer Esmail
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xi, 285 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780821420348
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: 0821420348
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- "Perchance my hand may touch the lyre:" deaf poetry and the politics of language -- "I listened with my eyes": writing speech and reading deafness in the fiction of Charles Dickens and wilkie Collins -- "Human in shape, but only half human in attributes": sign language, evolutionary theory, and the animal-human divide -- "A deaf variety of the human race"?: sign language, deaf marriage, and utopian and dystopian visons of deaf communities -- "Finding the shapes of sounds": prosthetic technology, speech, and Victorian deafness -- Conclusion
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Deaf-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
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Deaf-- Means of communication-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
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Sign language-- History-- 19th century
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Deaf in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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305.9/082094109034
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HV2716.E86 2013
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