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Personal and cultural histories of blindness

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    • 10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes) March 13, 2022
    • 9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes) January 31, 2022
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    Virtual Monster Book Tour for ‘There Plant Eyes’ (June 2021) * Links to Videos

    Virtual Monster Book Tour for ‘There Plant Eyes’ (June 2021) * Links to Videos

    Posted on July 12, 2021September 12, 2021News and Events

    Thanks to those of you who joined me for one or more of my virtual book tour events in June! If you missed one or you just need to repeat or share one you’ve already ...

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    10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on March 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    While the previous chapter, “Braille and His Invention,” investigated the history of the tactile alphabet that was so key in blind education, this chapter turns its attention to the low-tech technology of the white cane—as ...

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    9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on January 31, 2022January 30, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In the previous chapter, “Performing Enlightenment,” Godin examined the origins—historical and philosophical—of the first school for the blind. We continue the tale of the early systematic education of the blind that began in Paris and ...

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    8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on January 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In “Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man,” we investigated the philosophy and science of “restoring sight,” which does not always turn out to be the obvious gift that many sighted (and blind) people might think. In ...

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    Charles Dickens * ‘American Notes’ * Boston & Laura Bridgman

    Charles Dickens * ‘American Notes’ * Boston & Laura Bridgman

    Posted on January 10, 2022Blindness and Literature

    Reading American Notes is how Helen Keller’s mother learned that her deafblind child could be educated. In that travel narrative, Charles Dickens wrote about his meeting with Laura Bridgman (the first deafblind person to be ...

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    Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on November 29, 2021December 1, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    The empirical impulse as philosophized and practiced by Galileo, Bacon, and Hooke (Chapter 5), and as poeticized by Milton (Chapter 6), came into fruition by the end of the seventeenth century culminating, perhaps, in the ...

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    Chapter 6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on October 3, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    John Milton is in some ways the heart of There Plant Eyes. After all, the title comes from a passage in his 1667 Paradise Lost–read the short passage from the famous invocation to the Muse ...

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    Darren Harbour, “The Inspirer,” Demands Inclusion in the Pro Wrestling Ring

    Darren Harbour, “The Inspirer,” Demands Inclusion in the Pro Wrestling Ring

    Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Down With Ocularcentrism, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

    In “Sanctified by Affliction, or Not” (Chapter 12 of There Plant Eyes), we meet Darren Harbour, a blind actor, dancer, model, stand-up comedian, massage therapist, and wrestler. Yes, you heard right: Darren is a wrestler ...

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    Chapter 5 “Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 5 “Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on September 6, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    Chapter 5, “Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations,” brings There Plant Eyes into the world of Early Modern science. Galileo, Bacon, Hooke, and Descartes are just some of the authors we meet in this chapter that ...

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    Chapter 4 “Out, Vile Jelly!” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 4 “Out, Vile Jelly!” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on August 29, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    Continuing our consideration of blindness as punishment and moral corrective discussed in Chapters 2 and 3, “Out, Vile Jelly!” is a deep dive into one iconic example of blinding, namely the violent plucking of the ...

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    Chapter 3: “I Once Was Blind, but Now I See” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 3: “I Once Was Blind, but Now I See” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on August 28, 2021August 29, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In  Chapter 3, Godin explores the Greek-inflected Christian origins of the saintly blind and blindness as corrective  tropes that expand and subtly change ideas of compensation and punishment as discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. ...

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