signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /
Jennifer Esmail
xi, 285 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index
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
Deaf in literature
Deaf-- Means of communication-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism