Political Trust in China - Couverture souple

Li, Lianjiang

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472057529 ISBN 13 : 9780472057528

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2025

Synopsis

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, essays, letters, and speeches authored by blind readers, By Touch Alone traces the ways in which literacy changed blind people's experiences of education, leisure, spirituality, and social engagement. Analyzing records of activism and innovation as well as frustration, this study documents the development of an inkless book culture shaped by blind readers’ preferences and needs. While By Touch Alone features the writing and ideas of an understudied community of nineteenth-century blind authors, innovators, and activists, it also engages the work of sighted authors such as George Eliot and Rudyard Kipling to explore the culture-wide effects of reading by touch. The emergence of a new category of readers who did not rely on sight to read prompted sighted people to reimagine blindness and adopt more progressive attitudes toward blind people. In our own era, one characterized by the increasing digitization of our reading lives, Vanessa Warne’s exploration positions scholars and blind readers to navigate present-day developments and shape the future of their reading lives. A carefully contextualized study of how reading by touch shaped Victorian culture, By Touch Alone adds new chapters to the history of disability and reading.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lianjiang Li is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472057529
• ISBN 13: 9780472057528
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
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• Personne responsable: non disponible