Books+ Search Results
Victorian hands : the manual turn in nineteenth-century body studies
Title
Victorian hands : the manual turn in nineteenth-century body studies / Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka, editors.
ISBN
9780814214398
0814214398
9780814280737
0814280730
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture. Contributors to this volume discuss the hand in the works of Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Morris, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The anatomy of Anglican industry: mechanical philosophy and early factory fiction / Peter J. Capuano
Lost hands and prosthetic narratives: William Dodd, writing at the industrial join / Tamara Ketabgian
"A fiery hand gripped my vitals": Admiral Nelson, amputation, and heroic masculinity in Jane Eyre / Karen Bourrier
Hands and the will in The woman in white / Pamela K. Gilbert
Hands at a séance: manual evidence in Victorian spiritualism and the ghost story / Aviva Briefel
Hands and minds in The Moonstone / Sue Zemka
The dead hand: George Eliot and the burdens of inheritance / James Eli Adams
Computation and the gendering of gestures / Jonathan Cheng
The photographer's hand / Kate Flint
Staged hands in Bleak House / Julianne Smith
Handling private dramas of class and gender in Anthony Trollope's The Duke's children / Deborah Denenholz Morse
Reading by hand: Oscar Wilde and the body in the archive / Daniel A. Novak
Hands in Hardy and James / J. Hillis Miller.
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
