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 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro and Futura by Westchester Publishing Ser vices 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 This page intentionally left blank 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 This page intentionally left blank · 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
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