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).
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*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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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/heather-tilley
*Projects: *http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/touchingthebook/
https://victorianpsychologynow.wordpress.com/
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