By Touch Alone

By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind people learned how to read by touch. Using fiction,...

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Main Author:	Warne, Vanessa
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2025
Subjects:	blindness, history of blindness, history of reading, reading by touch, braille, literacy, stereotypes, specialized schools, disability history, the right to read, blindness gain, Victorian literature, history of education, autobiography, Romola, George du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, W.W. Fenn, Alfred Hirst, Edmund White, Alice King, Elizabeth Gilbert, William Moon, books for blind people, typewriting, amanuenses, Foucault frames thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects
Online Access:	ONIX_20251016T132133_9780472905089_5
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