Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (History of Disability)
“In this gracefully written book, Edwards offers both a fascinating narrative and a provocative, revisionist thesis. Scholars and general readers interested in the Deaf community and American cultural history will find it a rewarding read.”-Douglas Baynton,University of Iowa"[A] useful addition to the still-developing history of the nation's evolving deaf community." -The Journal of American History,"[This book is] provocative, detailed, and a welcome examination of the emergence of a signing deaf culture."-American Historical Review,"R.A.R. Edwards'Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Cultureis a brilliant study of the emergence of a deaf community in nineteenth-century America... Beyond a more nuanced account of the emergence of the American Deaf community, this monograph is ultimately a revisionist history of the ongoing conflict over pedagogical methods in deaf education. Building on the established historiography produced by a small cadre of deaf historians, Edwards represents a new generation of scholarship in the field, offering a revisionist thesis of the ideas originally presented by Van Cleve and Crouch over twenty years ago.Words Made Fleshis a fine addition to New York University press's history of disability series."-Common-Place,