Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the blind in France

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The work Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the blind in France represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the blind in France

Statement of responsibility

William R. Paulson

Creator

• Paulson, William R., 1955-

Author

• Paulson, William R., 1955-

Subject

• Blind -- France -- History
• Blind in literature
• Blind in literature
• Blindness
• Blindness -- France -- History
• Blindness in literature
• Blindness in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Enlightenment
• Enlightenment
• France
• French literature
• French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | French
• Romanticism
• Romanticism -- France
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• 1700-1899
• Blind

Genre

• History
• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language and sign systems: the philosophes were concerned at first with understanding the doctrine of innate ideas, rather than with understanding blindness as such.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Member of

• Princeton legacy library

Cataloging source

EYM

Dewey number

840 .9 35208161

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ283

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Princeton Legacy Library