Writing Deafness
Subtitle: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780807831182
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - General; Handicapped; United States - 19th Century; deafness; identity formation; deaf education; deaf people; deaf authors; "hearing lineÓ; deaf writing; Washington Irving; color line; minority; double consciousness; disability studies; James Fenimore Cooper; Herman Melville; Ambrose Bierce; Lydia Huntley Sigourney; Mark Twain; William Craft; Joel Chandler Harris; P. T. Barnum; Laurent Clerc; John Carolin; John J. Flournoy; Laura Redden Searing; Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet; 19th century; Deaf; Deaf authors; Deaf, Writings of the, American; History; United States