Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France / / William R. Paulson.
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 bl...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of 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