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245 10 a| Reading Victorian deafnessh| [electronic resource] :b| signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture /c| Jennifer Esmail.;

260 a| Athens :b| Ohio University Press,c| [2013];

300 a| xi, 285 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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650 0 a| English literaturey| 19th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A16134;

650 0 a| Deaf people in literature.=| ^A1260166;

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Reading Victorian deafness signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture / Jennifer Esmail.

Author/creator	Esmail, Jennifer, 1979-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Athens : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Description	xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Deaf people--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Deaf people--Means of communication. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Sign language--History. --19th century. English literature--19th century. --History and criticism. Deaf people in literature.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012044038
ISBN	9780821420348 (hc : alk. paper)

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