Selina Mills explores the history of blindness in Western Culture, revealing that it is not as dark as it is often portrayed. She shares her own experience of losing her sight and takes us on a journey through the lives, stories, and achievements of blind people, as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize, and fix them. From the blind poet Homer to the myths and moralizing of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times, the story of blindness is a story of our whole culture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing,which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating historical adventure,Broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all. Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career, Life Unsee n takes us through a personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives,stories and achievements of blind people - as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize,demonize and fix them. From the blind poet Homer,through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times,the story of blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture.

Imagine a world without sight.

Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening?

In this fascinating historical adventure, Broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all. Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career, Life Unsee n takes us through a personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives, stories and achievements of blind people - as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize and fix them. From the blind poet Homer, through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times, the story of blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture.

Weight: 588g
Dimension: 240 x 165 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848856905