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Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature

Altschuler, Sari

American literature, 2020-03, Vol.92 (1), p.91-122 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature
Autor: Altschuler, Sari
Assuntos: American culture ; American literature ; American Studies ; Cultural factors ; Cultural Studies ; Disability ; Disorders ; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) ; Historical text analysis ; Literary criticism ; Literary Theory ; Literature ; Literature and Literary Studies ; Novels
É parte de: American literature, 2020-03, Vol.92 (1), p.91-122
Descrição: This essay demonstrates the value of disability history for literary and cultural studies. It develops as a method through which to examine the historical experiences and epistemologies, rather than representations, of disability in particular times and places and emphasizes the vast and varied entanglements of those experiences and epistemologies with mainstream US culture. To do so, “Touching ” turns to perhaps the most canonical American novel to show how returning disability history to a text—here Nathaniel Hawthorne’s connections to and interest in blind education as well as the extensive cultural influence of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in the 1840s and 1850s—can reframe fundamental aspects of our analyses, such as how we understand reading and interpretation. In so doing, this essay argues for and begins to uncover a hidden disability history of US literature and culture.
Editor: Durham: Duke University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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