Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture: Series in Victorian Studies
Autor Jennifer Esmailen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 apr 2013
Winner
of
the
2013
Sonya
Rudikoff
Award
for
best
first
book
in
Victorian
Studies
Short-listed for the 2013 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize.
Reading Victorian Deafnessis 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 Deafnessargues that deaf people’s language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain.
The Victorians understood signed languages in multiple, and often contradictory, ways: they were objects of fascination and revulsion, were of scientific import and literary interest, and were considered both a unique mode of human communication and a vestige of a bestial heritage. Over the course of the nineteenth century, deaf people were increasingly stripped of their linguistic and cultural rights by a widespread pedagogical and cultural movement known as “oralism,” comprising mainly hearing educators, physicians, and parents.
Engaging with a group of human beings who used signs instead of speech challenged the Victorian understanding of humans as “the speaking animal” and the widespread understanding of “language” as a product of the voice. It is here thatReading Victorian Deafnessoffers substantial contributions to the fields of Victorian studies and disability studies. This book expands current scholarly conversations around orality, textuality, and sound while demonstrating how understandings of disability contributed to Victorian constructions of normalcy.Reading Victorian Deafnessargues that deaf people were used as material test subjects for the Victorian process of understanding human language and, by extension, the definition of the human.
Short-listed for the 2013 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize.
Reading Victorian Deafnessis 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 Deafnessargues that deaf people’s language use was a public, influential, and contentious issue in Victorian Britain.
The Victorians understood signed languages in multiple, and often contradictory, ways: they were objects of fascination and revulsion, were of scientific import and literary interest, and were considered both a unique mode of human communication and a vestige of a bestial heritage. Over the course of the nineteenth century, deaf people were increasingly stripped of their linguistic and cultural rights by a widespread pedagogical and cultural movement known as “oralism,” comprising mainly hearing educators, physicians, and parents.
Engaging with a group of human beings who used signs instead of speech challenged the Victorian understanding of humans as “the speaking animal” and the widespread understanding of “language” as a product of the voice. It is here thatReading Victorian Deafnessoffers substantial contributions to the fields of Victorian studies and disability studies. This book expands current scholarly conversations around orality, textuality, and sound while demonstrating how understandings of disability contributed to Victorian constructions of normalcy.Reading Victorian Deafnessargues that deaf people were used as material test subjects for the Victorian process of understanding human language and, by extension, the definition of the human.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821420348
ISBN-10: 0821420348
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: yes, drawings & photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Series in Victorian Studies
ISBN-10: 0821420348
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: yes, drawings & photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Series in Victorian Studies
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Recenzii
“Jennifer
Esmail
has
written
the
definitive
work
on
deafness
and
language
in
Victorian
England.
But
beyond
that
she
has
contributed
immeasurably
to
our
understanding
of
the
way
that
language,
spoken
and
written,
was
understood
in
that
era
culturally,
politically,
and
socially.
Since
language
was
so
central
to
the
Victorians,
this
book
opens
a
window
not
only
on
deafness
but
the
larger
Victorian
culture
as
well.”—Lennard
Davis,
Department
of
English,
University
of
Illinois
at
Chicago
“[A]
truly
excellent,
original
book
that
deserves
to
be
widely
read…Reading
Victorian
Deafnessis
an
astonishing
contribution
not
only
to
disability
studies
but
also
to
the
many
uses
to
which
the
shifting
relations
between
sound
and
print
were
put
in
nineteenth-century
literature
and
culture.”
—SEL:
Studies
in
English
Literature,
1500-1900
“Appealing
to
a
wide
range
of
academic
audiences,
Esmail's
monograph
is
an
authoritative
and
thought-provoking
study
that
encourages
its
readers
to
reconsider
the
significance
of
the
spoken
language
in
terms
of
what
it
means
to
be
human.”—Literature
&
History
“An
extensively
and
assiduously
researched
study
of
Victorian
Deafness
as
a
multi-layered
cultural
entity
…Reading
Victorian
Deafnessmakes
a
groundbreaking
contribution
to
Disability
Studies
at
large
and
Victorianist
Disability
Studies
specifically.”—Martha
Stoddard
Holmes,
author
ofFictions
of
Affliction:
Physical
Disability
in
Victorian
Culture
“(Reading
Victorian
Deafness)
offers
a
richer
demonstration
of
how
Victorian
deafness
might
make
us
think.
As
a
truly
comprehensive
study
of
Victorian
deafness,
it
incrementally
expands
the
scope
of
disability
studies
theory
and
practice
by
clearly
synthesizing
disability
studies
with
other
subdisciplines,
thus
building
innovative
new
frameworks
for
investigating
the
cultural
history
of
the
body.”—Review
19
Notă biografică
Jennifer
Esmailis
a
coordinator
in
the
Centre
for
Community
Partnerships
at
the
University
of
Toronto.
She
formerly
held
the
positions
of
assistant
professor
in
the
Department
of
English
and
Film
Studies
at
Wilfrid
Laurier
University
and
postdoctoral
fellow
in
the
Department
of
English
at
Rutgers,
the
State
University
of
New
Jersey.
She
has
published
research
on
the
representation
of
deafness
and
disability
in
Victorian
literature
and
culture
inELH:
English
Literary
History,
Sign
Language
Studies,
Victorian
Poetry,andVictorian
Review.
Cuprins
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One
“Perchance My Hand May Touch the Lyre”
Deaf Poetry and the Politics of Language - Two
“I Listened with My Eyes”
Writing Speech and Reading Deafness in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins - Three
“Human in Shape, but Only Half Human in Attributes”
Sign Language, Evolutionary Theory, and the Animal-Human Divide - Four
“A Deaf Variety of the Human Race”?
Sign Language, Deaf Marriage, and Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Deaf Communities - Five
“Finding the Shapes of Sounds”
Prosthetic Technology, Speech, and Victorian Deafness - Conclusion
The Act of Reading Victorian Deafness - Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
Reading
Victorian
Deafnessis
the
first
book
to
address
the
crucial
role
that
deaf
people,
and
their
unique
language
of
signs,
played
in
Victorian
culture.