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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France

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Full Title:

Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France

Contributors:

By (Author) William R. Paulson

ISBN:

9780691609546

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

23rd September 2014

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Dewey:

840.90092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

272

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm

Weight:

369g

Description

Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, mad

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