The blind and blindness in literature of the Romantic period / [electronic resource]
Larrissy, Edward,author.
In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject  Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period.
COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Enigma of the Blind; Chapter 2 The Celtic Bard in Ireland and Britain: Blindness and Second Sight; Chapter 3 Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind; Chapter 4 Edifying Tales; Chapter 5 Wordsworth's Transitions; Chapter 6 Coleridge, Keats and a Full Perception; Chapter 7 Byron and Shelley: The Blindness of Reason; Chapter 8 Mary Shelley: Blind Fathers and the Magnetic Globe: Frankenstein with Valperga and The Last Man; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
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In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject  Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period.
Blindness in literature.
Blind in literature.
Romanticism
English literature
English poetry