By Touch Alone
By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind people learned how to read by touch. Using fiction,...
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2025
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| description | By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind people learned how to read by touch. Using fiction, essays, letters, and speeches authored by blind readers, By Touch Alone traces the ways in which literacy changed blind people's experiences of education, leisure, spirituality, and social engagement. Analyzing records of activism and innovation as well as frustration, this study documents the development of an inkless book culture shaped by blind readers’ preferences and needs. While By Touch Alone features the writing and ideas of an understudied community of nineteenth-century blind authors, innovators, and activists, it also engages the work of sighted authors such as George Eliot and Rudyard Kipling to explore the culture-wide effects of reading by touch. The emergence of a new category of readers who did not rely on sight to read prompted sighted people to reimagine blindness and adopt more progressive attitudes toward blind people. In our own era, one characterized by the increasing digitization of our reading lives, Vanessa Warne’s exploration positions scholars and blind readers to navigate present-day developments and shape the future of their reading lives. A carefully contextualized study of how reading by touch shaped Victorian culture, By Touch Alone adds new chapters to the history of disability and reading. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1672492025-10-17T05:07:01Z By Touch Alone Warne, Vanessa blindness, history of blindness, history of reading, reading by touch, braille, literacy, stereotypes, specialized schools, disability history, the right to read, blindness gain, Victorian literature, history of education, autobiography, Romola, George du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, W.W. Fenn, Alfred Hirst, Edmund White, Alice King, Elizabeth Gilbert, William Moon, books for blind people, typewriting, amanuenses, Foucault frames thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind people learned how to read by touch. Using fiction, essays, letters, and speeches authored by blind readers, By Touch Alone traces the ways in which literacy changed blind people's experiences of education, leisure, spirituality, and social engagement. Analyzing records of activism and innovation as well as frustration, this study documents the development of an inkless book culture shaped by blind readers’ preferences and needs. While By Touch Alone features the writing and ideas of an understudied community of nineteenth-century blind authors, innovators, and activists, it also engages the work of sighted authors such as George Eliot and Rudyard Kipling to explore the culture-wide effects of reading by touch. The emergence of a new category of readers who did not rely on sight to read prompted sighted people to reimagine blindness and adopt more progressive attitudes toward blind people. In our own era, one characterized by the increasing digitization of our reading lives, Vanessa Warne’s exploration positions scholars and blind readers to navigate present-day developments and shape the future of their reading lives. A carefully contextualized study of how reading by touch shaped Victorian culture, By Touch Alone adds new chapters to the history of disability and reading. 2025-10-17T05:07:00Z 2025-10-17T05:07:00Z 2025-10-16T11:23:21Z 2025 book ONIX_20251016T132133_9780472905089_5 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106516 9780472905089 9780472077519 9780472057511 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/167249 eng Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106516/1/9780472905089.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12860987 10.3998/mpub.12860987 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905089 9780472077519 9780472057511 218 open access |
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| topic | blindness, history of blindness, history of reading, reading by touch, braille, literacy, stereotypes, specialized schools, disability history, the right to read, blindness gain, Victorian literature, history of education, autobiography, Romola, George du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, W.W. Fenn, Alfred Hirst, Edmund White, Alice King, Elizabeth Gilbert, William Moon, books for blind people, typewriting, amanuenses, Foucault frames thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects |
| topic_facet | blindness, history of blindness, history of reading, reading by touch, braille, literacy, stereotypes, specialized schools, disability history, the right to read, blindness gain, Victorian literature, history of education, autobiography, Romola, George du Maurier, Wilkie Collins, W.W. Fenn, Alfred Hirst, Edmund White, Alice King, Elizabeth Gilbert, William Moon, books for blind people, typewriting, amanuenses, Foucault frames thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects |
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