عن طريق اللمس فقط العمى والقراءة في ثقافة القرن التاسع عشر

Just By Touch shows how touch reading changed the lives of blind people in the nineteenth century, even challenging prevailing notions about blind people and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind people learned to read by touch. Through stories, essays, letters, and letters written by blind readers, the book traces how literacy changed blind people's experiences of education, entertainment, spirituality, and social participation. By analyzing records of activity and innovation, as well as frustrations, this study documents the development of a non-print book culture, shaped by the preferences and needs of blind readers. While Just Touch highlights the writings and ideas of a little-studied community of blind writers, innovators, and activists in the nineteenth century, it also examines the work of sighted writers such as George Eliot and Rudyard Kipling to explore the broad cultural influences of touch reading. The emergence of a new category of non-sighted readers has prompted sighted people to reimagine the concept of blindness and adopt more progressive attitudes toward the blind. In today's increasingly digitized era, Vanessa Warren's exploration enables blind researchers and readers to keep pace with current developments and shape the future of their reading lives. With a carefully framed examination of how touch reading influenced Victorian culture, Just By Touch adds new chapters to the history of disability and reading.