Selina Mills

Life Unseen (eBook, PDF)

A Story of Blindness

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening?

In this fascinating historical adventure, Broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all.
Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career, Life Unseen takes us through a personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives, stories and achievements of blind people - as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize and fix them. From the blind poet Homer, through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times, the story of blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350349728
• Artikelnr.: 67878037

Autorenporträt

Selina Mills is an award-winning writer and broadcaster who is legally blind. Educated in the USA and the UK, Selina has worked as a senior reporter and broadcaster for Reuters, The Daily Telegraph, and the BBC.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Close Your EyesChapter 1: Imagining It - Nandy and Mythic HeroesChapter 2: Living With It - Dark Versus LightChapter 3: Faking It - False Eyes, False DevilsChapter 4: Fixing It - The Lure of the CureChapter 5: Learning It - Educating "The Blind"Chapter 6: Reading It - Pure FictionChapter Seven: Inventing it - Who Decides What You See?Conclusion: What is Blindness Anyway?Index

Rezensionen

Written with wit, warmth and razor-sharp insight, this book should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in blindness, history, society, culture and beyond. Anna Bonet Non-fiction book of the month, The i