Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education
Empowering the Mute, 1785-1820
Seiten
2015
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1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51285-7 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51285-7 (ISBN)
Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Emmet Kennedy is Professor Emeritus of European History at George Washington University, USA. His book A Cultural History of the French Revolution was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Introduction One: The Ascent to Paris Two: Passport through the Terror Three: A Refractory Priest in the Republic of Professors Four: Sicard and Napoleon Five: International Signing During the Restoration Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Appendices I. The Library of the Abbe Sicard II. F. Berthier's Account of Sicard's Encounter with Bonaparte III. Berthier's Estimation of Sicard's Signing Method
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XIX, 212 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-51285-7 / 1137512857 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-51285-7 / 9781137512857 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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