Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34CM1
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- ISBN
- 9780813943329
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- With respect to research effort, the book is the first monograph on the history of blindness since 1933, and challenges all of Robert Rutson James’s arguments presenting new evidence drawn from archival study, and offering new conclusions.
With respect to critical insights, the book shifts paradigms of reading disability, from objective Foucauldian discourses of oppression, to a subjective study of real cases of people with sight impairments and the people who attempted to cure them. The shift is underpinned by the idea of VariAbility, which the book explains.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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