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Silent poetry: deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
Year: c1995.
Publisher:  Princeton University Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Sign Wars
The Art of Signing
1 ANCIENT GESTURES, MODERN SIGNS
French Ancients and Moderns
The Deaf in the Harem
The Deafness of the Ancients
Philosophy and the Sign
Sign at the Salon
Signs of Revolution
2 SIGNS AND CITIZENS
Regeneration and the Deaf
The Politics of Deafness
The Normal and the Pathological
David's Studio and the Deaf
3 THE MIMICRY OF MIMESIS
Morality, Sign, and Pathology
Mimicry, Copying, and Originality
Revolt and Organization
Cultural Politics
A Culture of Gestures
Mimicry and Mimesis
4 VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGY
Touch, the Hand, and Gesture
Evolutionism, Art, and the Sign
The Silent Monument
Milan and After
5 A DEAF VARIETY OF MODERNISM?
Republican Morality
The Deaf Artists and the Museum
Gesture and Hysteria
Deaf Republicans
Deaf Artists and the Third Republic
The Deaf and the Dreyfus Affair
Eugenics and the Deaf
Deaf Moderns
EPILOGUE
Anthropology and Philosophy
Art History
Deaf Culture
Notes
Index
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Title: Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France Nicholas Mirzoeff.
Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
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Source Version: Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France Nicholas Mirzoeff. 
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02135
Subject Headings: • Sign language -- History -- 19th century
• Art, French -- 19th century
• Deaf -- Means of communication -- France -- History -- 19th century
• Deaf artists -- France -- History -- 19th century
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