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Changing Hands : Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body /

"In Changing Hands, Peter J. Capuano sifts through Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labor, gender, class, and racial categorization, using "hands" (the "distinguishing mark of ... hu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Capuano, Peter J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Changing Hands, Peter J. Capuano sifts through Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labor, gender, class, and racial categorization, using "hands" (the "distinguishing mark of ... humanity") as the primary point of reference. Capuano complicates his study by situating the historical argument in the context of questions about the disappearance of hands during the twentieth century into the haze of figurative meaning. ... Capuano exposes a powerful, "embodied handedness" as the historical basis for many of the uncritically metaphoric, metonymic, and/or ideogrammatic approaches to the study of the human body in recent critical discourse."--Provided by publisher.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (340 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780472121403