Reading Victorian deafness : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /

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Author / Creator:	Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Series in Victorian Studies Series in Victorian Studies.
Subject:	Deaf -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Deaf -- Means of communication -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Sign language -- History -- 19th century. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Deaf in literature. Deaf. Deaf in literature. Deaf -- Means of communication. English literature. Sign language. Great Britain. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11277243

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ISBN:	9780821444511 0821444514 0821420348 9780821420348 9780821420348
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. 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 by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, Reading Victorian Deafness argues that deaf people's language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain. The Victorians understood signed.
Other form:	Print version: Esmail, Jennifer, 1979- Reading Victorian deafness : signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2013 xi, 285 pages 9780821420348

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