Abstract
This essay traces an association between blindness and intimacy in J.M. Synge’s The Well of the Saints, Florence Barclay’s The Rosary, and D.H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man,” suggesting that the association participates in an early twentieth-century devaluation of vision and stems from beliefs about knowledge and communication.
Date of this Version
2013
Recommended Citation
Linett, Maren, "Blindness and Intimacy in Early Twentieth-Century Literature" (2013). Department of English Faculty Publications. Paper 7.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/englpubs/7
Comments
This is the author-accepted manuscript of Linett, M. (2013). Blindness and Intimacy in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 46(3), 27-42. Copyright University of Manitoba, it is shared here with permission, and the version of record is available at DOI 10.1353/mos.2013.0030.