Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture

by R.A.R. Edwards

Book Overview

During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814722431
• ISBN13: 9780814722435
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"