Words made flesh : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.

New York : New York University Press, [2012], ©2012.

vii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world -- Manual education: an American beginning -- Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school -- The deaf way: living a deaf life -- Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists -- Languages of signs: methodical versus natural -- The flight over the Clark School: manualists and oralists confront deafness.

Includes bibliographical references and index.