How Long to Read The Madwoman and the Blindman

How Long Does it Take to Read The Madwoman and the Blindman?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read The Madwoman and the Blindman by David Bolt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This breakthrough volume of critical essays on Jane Eyre from a disability perspective provides fresh insight into Charlotte Bronte's classic novel from a vantage point that is of growing academic and cultural importance. Contributors include many of the preeminent disability scholars publishing today, including a foreword by Lennard J. Davis. Though an indisputable classic and a landmark text for critical voices from feminism to Marxism to postcolonialism, until now, Jane Eyre has never yet been fully explored from a disability perspective. Customarily, impairment in the novel has been read unproblematically as loss, an undesired deviance from a condition of regularity vital to stable closure of the marriage plot. In fact, the most visible aspects of disability in the novel have traditionally been understood in rather rudimentary symbolic terms - the blindness of Rochester and the "madness" of Bertha apparently standing in for other aspects of identity. The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, resists this traditional reading of disability in the novel. Informed by a variety of perspectives - cultural studies, linguistics, and gender and film studies - the essays in this collection suggest surprising new interpretations, parsing the trope of the Blindman, investigating the embodiment of mental illness, and proposing an autistic identity for Jane Eyre. As the first volume of criticism dedicated to analyzing and theorizing the role of disability in a single literary text, The Madwoman and the Blindman is a model for how disability studies can open new conversation and critical thought within the literary canon.

How long is The Madwoman and the Blindman?

The Madwoman and the Blindman by David Bolt is 196 pages long, and a total of 50,176 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Madwoman and the Blindman Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 34 minutes to read The Madwoman and the Blindman aloud.

What Reading Level is The Madwoman and the Blindman?

The Madwoman and the Blindman is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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