See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor

297 Pages·2018·2.49 MB·English

by  Ralph James Savarese

S E E I T
F E E L I NGLY
thought in the act
A series edited by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
· RALPH JAMES SAVARESE ·
S E E I T
F E E L I NG LY
Classic Novels, Autistic Readers,
and the Schooling of
a No- Good En glish Professor
Duke University Press Durham and London 2018
© 2018 Duke University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Savarese, Ralph James, author.
Title: See it feelingly : classic novels, autistic readers, and the schooling
of a no- good En glish professor / Ralph James Savarese.
Other titles: Thought in the act.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Series: Thought
in the act | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2018015605 (print) | lccn 2018013140 (ebook)
isbn 9781478001300 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 9781478002734 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Autistic people— Psy chol ogy. |
Autistic people— Language. | Autistic people— Education. |
En glish fiction— Study and teaching.
Classification: lcc rc553.a88 s296 2018 (ebook) |
lcc rc553.a88 (print) | ddc 616.85/882— dc23
lc rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018015605
Cover art: Photo by Robert Cushman Murphy taken aboard
the whaleship Daisy. Courtesy of the Whaling Museum & Education
Center of Cold Spring Harbor.
for the six in the book
· · ·
And in memory of F. D. Reeve, my former teacher,
and Mando Montaño, my former student
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lear:
. . . No eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse?
. . . Yet you see how this world goes.
earl of gloucester:
I see it feelingly.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
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· contents ·
Foreword by Stephen Kuusisto xi
Acknowle dgments x v
introduction 1
prologue. River of Words,
Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies 15
one. From a World as Fluid as the Sea 23
two. The Heavens of the Brain 57
three. Andys and Auties 86
four. Finding Her Feet 122
five. Take for Grandin 155
epilogue 1 91
Notes 1 97 Bibliography 2 47 Index 261