.... An unfamiliar Lawrence emerges. Examples are taken from Twilight in Italy, ‘The Blind Man’ and The Boy in the Bush. reader response criticism Foucault Michel Peirce Charles Sanders Sanders Scott New Criticism Clayton Douglas Greece ancient Hardy Thomas Italy Lawrence D...

...This chapter focuses on the figure of the blind man in the works of Mary Shelley, noting that while the blind man is not central to her works, it is still relevant enough. In Frankenstein, the blind man serves as the only person who cannot react with prejudice to the hideousness...

...In 1749 Diderot composed his celebrated Letter on the Blind that dealt directly with blindness and what the blind supposedly ‘see’. Diderot sought out the testimony of an actual blind man in the French town of Puiseaux. Referring back to Molyneux’s question, and having considered...

...Since Descartes, most discussions of blindness have been in terms of what Kleegecalls ‘the Hypothetical Blind Man’, a blank-blind figure, rendered mute. In contrast, the twentieth century offered a number of personal accounts of blindness and the process of going blind, at once furthering...

... and d’Alembert cataract removal Lettre sur les aveugles Diderot NLP No Light Perception Saunderson Nicholas vision impairment hypothetical blind man Locke John Molyneux problem Sacks Oliver sensory substitution Garland Thomson Rosemarie retinitis pigmentosa RP WHO World Health Organization Foucault...