Anna Pearce’s Reviews > Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America > Status Update

Second chapter makes more sense than the first, but wow, Samuel Gridley Howe was not quite the man everyone likes to make him out to be. Language is better in this chapter, and less background knowledge is needed, but still a bit dense.

First chapter is really 17th century philosophy heavy. I know why, but needs more context for the uninitiated.