Reading victorian deafness
Auteur :
Esmail, Jennifer
Éditeur :
Ohio University Press
ISBN :
9780821420348
Date de publication :
15 avr. 2013
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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, this book argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain.