Blindness and Writing From Wordsworth to Gissing
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1489
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107194212
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Blindness and Writing is a wide-ranging study of the relationship between literature and blindness in the nineteenth century. The book is grounded in historical and archival research, conducted over ten years, making extensive use of diverse sources including unpublished letters, early ophthalmologic textbooks, raised print books and published autobiographies by blind authors. It draws on insights from disability studies and cultural phenomenology to explore how blind people used textual form to articulate and shape their own experience and identity, whilst showing how blindness is a central theme in fiction through which writers reflect on the crafting of literary form.
- 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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