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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France / William R. Paulson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 782Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691609546
  • 9781400858583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840 .9 35208161
LOC classification:
  • PQ283
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: UNSEEING IN THE EYE -- 1. "SUPPOSE Α ΜΑΝ BORN BLIND . . ." -- 2. DIDEROT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD OF THE BLIND -- 3. CURING BLINDNESS: A MODERN MYTH -- 4. A MODERN PROJECT: EDUCATING THE BLIND -- 5. FROM CHATEAUBRIAND TO BALZAC: LITERATURE AND LOSS OF SIGHT -- 6. HUGO: BLIND SEERS, BLIND LOVERS, AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language and sign systems: the philosophes were concerned at first with understanding the doctrine of innate ideas, rather than with understanding blindness as such.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: UNSEEING IN THE EYE -- 1. "SUPPOSE Α ΜΑΝ BORN BLIND . . ." -- 2. DIDEROT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD OF THE BLIND -- 3. CURING BLINDNESS: A MODERN MYTH -- 4. A MODERN PROJECT: EDUCATING THE BLIND -- 5. FROM CHATEAUBRIAND TO BALZAC: LITERATURE AND LOSS OF SIGHT -- 6. HUGO: BLIND SEERS, BLIND LOVERS, AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- INDEX

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Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language and sign systems: the philosophes were concerned at first with understanding the doctrine of innate ideas, rather than with understanding blindness as such.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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