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  1. Reading Victorian Deafness
    Author: Esmail, Jennifer
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens, OH

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0821444514; 9780821444511
    Series: Series in Victorian Studies
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Deaf; Deaf in literature; Deaf / Means of communication; English literature; Sign language; Geschichte; Deaf; Deaf; Sign language; English literature; Deaf in literature; Gehörlosigkeit <Motiv>; Sprache <Motiv>; Literatur; Englisch; Zeichensprache; Gehörlosigkeit
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
    Notes:

    Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion

    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
  2. Reading Victorian deafness
    signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture
    Author: Esmail, Jennifer
    Published: 2013; © 2013
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780821420348; 9780821444511
    Subjects: Geschichte; Deaf; Deaf; Sign language; English literature; Deaf in literature; Literatur; Zeichensprache; Sprache <Motiv>; Gehörlosigkeit; Englisch; Gehörlosigkeit <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (298 pages), illustrations
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  3. Reading Victorian deafness
    signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture
    Author: Esmail, Jennifer
    Published: 2013; © 2013
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780821444511; 0821444514; 9780821420348
    Series: Series in Victorian Studies
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Deaf; Deaf in literature; Deaf / Means of communication; English literature; Sign language; Geschichte; Array; Gehörlosigkeit <Motiv>; Zeichensprache; Literatur; Gehörlosigkeit; Englisch; Sprache <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (298 pages), illustrations
    Notes:

    Print version record

    Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Conclusion

    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
  4. Reading Victorian deafness
    signs and sounds in Victorian literature and culture
    Author: Esmail, Jennifer
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    2013 A 16851
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780821420348
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Subjects: Deaf; Deaf; Sign language; English literature; Deaf in literature
    Scope: XI, 285 S., Ill., 24 cm
    Notes:

    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.