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Journal Article
The Mute's Voice: The Dramatic Transformations of the Mute and Deaf-Mute in Early-Nineteenth-Century France
2013
Overview
Bouilly's UAbbé de i'Épée offers a unique site of tension between modes of representing the mute, thanks to its ostensibly realistic portrayal of a thinly veiled historical deaf-mute individual, the Comte de Solar, and his teacher and patron, the Abbé de l'Épée.1 The narratives around the mute \"wild boy\" captured in Aveyron and brought to Paris early in 1800 express the immediate impact of literary and theatrical discourses in shaping a popular understanding of the kind of difference embodied by the feral child, who was to become the subject of an extended and influential philosophical and educational experiment conducted by Jean Itard. \"6 As Quayson argues, disability imagery performs its symbolic or metaphoric functions not only within the literary domain but is transported to the social realm, where it shapes the way in which people understand or interpret disabilities and the disabled individual. [...]the question of how one determines a truthful account of disability and its origins is central to historical and literary narratives of the Comte de Solar and the wild boy of Aveyron.
