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    12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on June 22, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Down With Ocularcentrism, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

    In the previous chapter, “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” Godin incites  readers to think about how notions of the virginal blind oppressed Helen Keller and stifled her dreams of becoming a wife and ...

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    11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on May 29, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In the previous endnotes, “The Tap, Tapping of Blind Travelers,” we spent time with the science of echolocation and the poetry and practicality of the tapping cane as well as a little of the history ...

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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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    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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