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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.
- Publication
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-863 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- 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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-863
- ISBN
- 9780814214398
- 0814214398
- 9780814280737 (canceled/invalid)
- 0814280730 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020020676
- OCLC
- 1142521439
- Title
- Victorian hands : the manual turn in nineteenth-century body studies / Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka, editors.
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Capuano, Peter J., editor.Zemka, Sue, 1958- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-863