Reading Victorian deafness signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture

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

Author/creator	Esmail, Jennifer, 1979-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Athens : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Description	xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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.

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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