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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 blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, mad



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: UNSEEING IN THE EYE, pg. 1*1. "SUPPOSE ALPHA MUALPHANU BORN BLIND ...", pg. 21*2. DIDEROT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD OF THE BLIND, pg. 39*3. CURING BLINDNESS: A MODERN MYTH, pg. 72*4. A MODERN PROJECT: EDUCATING THE BLIND, pg. 95*5. FROM CHATEAUBRIAND TO BALZAC: LITERATURE AND LOSS OF SIGHT, pg. 121*6. HUGO: BLIND SEERS, BLIND LOVERS, AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY, pg. 167*EPILOGUE, pg. 199*NOTES, pg. 213*INDEX, pg. 257

Enlightenment Romanticism and the Blind in France

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691609546, 978-0691609546
      ISBN10: 0691609543

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, mad



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: UNSEEING IN THE EYE, pg. 1*1. "SUPPOSE ALPHA MUALPHANU BORN BLIND ...", pg. 21*2. DIDEROT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD OF THE BLIND, pg. 39*3. CURING BLINDNESS: A MODERN MYTH, pg. 72*4. A MODERN PROJECT: EDUCATING THE BLIND, pg. 95*5. FROM CHATEAUBRIAND TO BALZAC: LITERATURE AND LOSS OF SIGHT, pg. 121*6. HUGO: BLIND SEERS, BLIND LOVERS, AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY, pg. 167*EPILOGUE, pg. 199*NOTES, pg. 213*INDEX, pg. 257

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