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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the blind in France /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paulson, William R., 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1987.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Unseeing in the Eye
  • 1. "Suppose a Man 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