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02256aam a2200301Mi 4500 001 5C06FDF4627B11EE9D8B625031ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231004010043 008 230921s2023 enk b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2023002762 020 $a 1848856903 020 $a 9781848856905 035 $a (OCoLC)1398509802 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Mills, Selina. 245 10 $a Life unseen : $b a story of blindness / $c Selina Mills. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2023 300 $a xii, 272 pages $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Imagining it : Nandy and mythic heroes -- Living with it : dark versus light -- Faking it : false eyes, false devils -- Fixing it : the lure of the cure -- Learning it : educating "the Blind,"19th Century part I -- Reading it : pure fiction, 19th century part II -- Inventing it : who decides what you see? -- Conclusion: what is blindness anyway? 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Blind $x History. 650 0 $a Blind $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 2 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011029.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231004010203.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C06FDF4627B11EE9D8B625031ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search