Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013

Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Hannah (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:IX, 199 p.
text
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Literary Disability Studies,
Subjects:
European literature.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern > 18th century.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
European Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43511-8
Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The French Metanarrative of Blindness
  • Chapter Two: The Creative ‘Look’ of the Blind ‘Seer’
  • Chapter Three: Non-Visual Language and Descriptive Blindness
  • Chapter Four: Male Desire and the Paradox of Blind Sexuality
  • Chapter Five: Silenced Sexualities: Listening to the Voice of the Blind Woman
  • Chapter Six: Blind Assassins
  • Chapter Seven: Science, Fantasy and (In)Visible Blindness
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.-.

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