Blindness and Writing : From Wordsworth to Gissing (Paperback)

Part I. Blind People's Writing Practices: 1. Writing blindness, from vision to touch; 2. The materiality of blindness in Wordsworth's imagination; 3. 'A literature for the blind': the development of raised print systems; 4. Memoirs of the blind: the genre of blind biographical writing; Part II. Literary Blindness: 5. Blindness, gender, and autobiography: reading and writing the self in Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh, and The Life of Charlotte Bronte; 6. Writing blindness: Dickens; 7. Embodying blindness in the Victorian novel: Frances Browne's My Share of the World and Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch; 8. Blindness, writing, and the failure of imagination in Gissing's New Grub Street.