Blindness and Writing

'This critical analysis makes an important contribution to future scholarship on the lived experience of blindness and visual impairment. Blindness and Writing is certainly a book that all who are interested in ophthalmologic discourse should read.' Denise Saul, The British Society for Literature and Science 'Tilley brilliantly outlines the varied ways in which the conventional association of blindness with illiteracy was challenged throughout the nineteenth century - from the development of raised print books, to the publication of early autobiographies by blind writers, to the complex and ambivalent portayals of visual impairment by major authors, including Wordsworth, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Frances Browne.' Jonathan Taylor, The Times Literary Supplement 'This critical analysis makes an important contribution to future scholarship on the lived experience of blindness and visual impairment. Blindness and Writing is certainly a book that all who are interested in ophthalmologic discourse should read.' Denise Saul, The British Society for Literature and Science 'Tilley brilliantly outlines the varied ways in which the conventional association of blindness with illiteracy was challenged throughout the nineteenth century - from the development of raised print books, to the publication of early autobiographies by blind writers, to the complex and ambivalent portayals of visual impairment by major authors, including Wordsworth, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Frances Browne.' Jonathan Taylor, The Times Literary Supplement