Project MUSE - Silent Eloquence: Literary Extracts, the Aesthetics of Disability, and Melville’s “Fragments”

Project MUSE - Silent Eloquence: Literary Extracts, the Aesthetics of Disability, and Melville’s “Fragments”

Cited in a forthcoming post on Melvilliana!

In their reality-denying rebuke of Washington Irving's "Little White Lady," privileged literary critics Daniel Diez Couch and Michael Anthony Nicholson combine ableism and antifeminism by reductively dismissing the traumatic lived experience and creative legacy of Sophia Hyatt, the accomplished deaf female poet, early disciple of Byron, and trailblazer of self-advocacy, as "objectifying fiction." 

-- Teenage Nervous Breakdown; or, Melville's deaf monster and the critics. 

 https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2021/05/teenage-nervous-breakdown-or-melvilles.html