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Victorian hands : the manual turn in nineteenth-century body studies / Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka, editors.
Loaned to Another Library PR468.H36 V53 2020
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hand in literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I HANDS: WHOLE AND PART
- ch. 1 The Anatomy of Anglican Industry: Mechanical Philosophy and Early Factory Fiction / Peter J. Capuano
- ch. 2 Lost Hands and Prosthetic Narratives: William Dodd, Writing at the Industrial Join / Tamara Ketabgian
- ch. 3 "A Fiery Hand Gripped My Vitals": Admiral Nelson, Amputation, and Heroic Masculinity in Jane Eyre / Karen Bourrier
- pt. II HANDS, PLOT, AND CHARACTER
- ch. 4 Hands and the Will in The Woman in White / Pamela K. Gilbert
- ch. 5 Hands at a Seance: Manual Evidence in Victorian Spiritualism and the Ghost Story / Aviva Briefel
- ch. 6 Hands and Minds in The Moonstone / Sue Zemka
- ch. 7 The Dead Hand: George Eliot and the Burdens of Inheritance / James Eli Adams
- ch. 8 Computation and the Gendering of Gestures / Jonathan Cheng
- pt. III FRAMING AND STAGING HANDS
- ch. 9 The Photographer's Hand / Kate Flint
- ch. 10 Staged Hands in Bleak House / Julianne Smith
- pt. IV MANUAL EXCEPTIONALISM IN LATER VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- ch. 11 Handling Private Dramas of Class and Gender in Anthony Trollope's The Duke's Children / Deborah Denenholz Morse
- ch. 12 Reading by Hand: Oscar Wilde and the Body in the Archive / Daniel A. Novak
- ch. 13 Hands in Hardy and James / J. Hillis Miller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814214398
- 0814214398
- OCLC:
- 1142521439
- Publisher Number:
- 99986019141
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