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Hi,

This book is of particular interest to me, as a visionimpaired author, but Iwill not be reading or buying it.

I will not read it because it is advertised only in hard copy, and i will not scan it. It should be available

in an electronic format. Secondly, I will not buy it because it is advertised at the price of AUD 155. 

The presentation of your book makes me wonder if you have any experience either as an author or as a vision-impaired persom (VIP).

You must/should know the a minute percentage of VIPs are blind or sightless. Sightlessness is most people's

assumption of blindness, so behave as if their assumption is correct. If you have researched disabled people's history, you must know that

their stance is 'Nothing about us without us.'

 I hope the marketing of your book markedly improves.

Dr Pamela Waugh

Canberra Australia


On 7 Dec 2017, at 2:12 am, Heather Tilley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Colleagues, 


I'm pleased to send notice of my book ‘Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing' which has just been published in hardback by Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781107194212). 

 

In the book I examine the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century. Considering the ways in which visually-impaired people used texts to shape their own identities, I argue that blindness was also a means by which writers reflected on crafting literary form. The book:

 

o     - Offers revisionary readings of nineteenth-century canonical authors 

o     - Extends understandings of disabled and embodied identity 

o     - Presents a range of under-researched archival material relating to the history of disability

 

For more information please visit www.cambridge.org/9781107194212

 

The book will also be made available in accessible format to all the institutions who participate in the RNIB's Bookshare programme. Cambridge University Press are also working on having a special version of the Adobe eBook produced with a ‘read out loud’ feature which will be made available for sale on their website when ready. 

 

Many thanks

Heather 

(Please note I am on maternity leave until the end of May 2018 so it may take me a little while to respond to any queries).


--
Dr Heather Tilley
Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow
Department of English and Humanities
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD

 
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