Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture
（Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Bodies and things in 19th-century literature and culture
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Some essays evolved out of a conference, Bodies and Things: Victorian Literature and the Matter of Culture, held at the University of Oxford, in September 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Bronte, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Bodies and Things
- K.Boehm Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary
- I.Armstrong PART I: SPACES 'The end of all the privacy and propriety': Fanny's Dressing Room in Mansfield Park
- K.Leuner Modes of Wearing the Towel: Masculinity, Insanity, and Clothing in Trollope's 'Turkish Bath'
- C.Spooner Travellers Bodies and Pregnant Things: Victorian Women in Imperial Conflict Zones
- M.O'Cinneide PART II: PRACTICES Albums, Belongings, and Embodying the Feminine
- S.Matthews 'Books in my Hands Books in my Heart Books in my Brain': Bibliomania, the Male Body, and Sensory Erotics in Late-Victorian Literature
- V.Mills Collecting and the Body in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Museums
- K.Hill PART III: PERFORMANCES Aesthetic Woman: The 'Fearful Consequence' of 'Living Up' to One's Antiques
- A.Anderson The Difference an Object Makes: Conscious Automaton Theory and the Decadent Cult of Artifice
- S.Forlini PART IV: EPILOGUE The Bodies of Things
- B.Brown Works Cited Index
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