The blind in French society from the Middle Ages to the century of Louis Braille
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The blind in French society from the Middle Ages to the century of Louis Braille
Stanford University Press, 2009
- タイトル別名
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Vivre sans voir
- 統一タイトル
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Vivre sans voir
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Translation of: Vivre sans voir. 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-403)
収録内容
- pt. 1. From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age : a paradoxical vision of blindness and the blind. The Middle Ages
- The beginning of modern times
- Groundwork for a history of blindness in the Classical Age
- pt. 2. The eighteenth century : another way of looking at the blind. Sensationalism and sensorial impairments
- Philanthropy and the education of the sensorially impaired
- The move of the Quinze-Vingts and the annuity from the public treasury
- pt. 3. The French Revolution and the blind : an affair of state. The establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791-1794)
- The National Institute for Blind Workers
- The merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts
- pt. 4. Blindness in France in the early nineteenth century : realities and fictions. The blind in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century
- Social representations and literary figures of blindness in the first third of the nineteenth century
- pt. 5. Blindness in the century of Louis Braille : from productivist utopia to cultural integration. The Quinze-Vingts under the Consulate and the Empire : implementing a productivist utopia
- The Quinze-Vingts under the Restoration : a "memory site" of the ultra-royalist reaction
- The Royal Institute for Blind Youth under the Restoration
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Hauy, the great benefactor of blind people.
Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.
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