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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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7 The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

7 The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on November 29, 2021August 5, 2022'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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6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on October 3, 2021August 5, 2022'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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5 Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

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

Posted on September 6, 2021August 5, 2022'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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4 Out, Vile Jelly! (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

4 Out, Vile Jelly! (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 29, 2021August 6, 2022'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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3 I Once Was Blind, but Now I See (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

3 I Once Was Blind, but Now I See (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 28, 2021August 6, 2022'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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2 The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

2 The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 10, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

Tiresias the blind prophet who makes an appearance on the stage and page of so many Greek tragedies and epics (for example, Oedipus, Antigone, The Odyssey) is perhaps the oldest and most famous of the ...

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1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 28, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the first chapter of There Plant Eyes, we travel back to the formative years of blindness in the Western cultural imagination: namely, the text of The Odyssey (traditionally ascribed to Homer), where so many ...

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‘The Odyssey’ BOOK VIII * Featuring the Blind Bard Demodocus

‘The Odyssey’ BOOK VIII * Featuring the Blind Bard Demodocus

Posted on July 27, 2021Blindness and Literature

In Book VII of The Odyssey we meet Demodocus, the blind bard who is in large part responsible for our association of Homer with blindness. The below text comes from Alexander Pope’s 1726 translation of ...

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Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 21, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

The introduction to There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness presents Godin’s earliest moments with vision loss when she was ten and visited so many baffled eye doctors. But the autobiographical quickly ...

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