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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Half-Lives of Hands
- Part I. Maneuvering Through Natural Theology and Industry. Shifting from Gaze to Grasp: "Odious Handywork" in Frankenstein ; The Anatomy of Anglican Industry: Mechanical Philosophy and Early Factory Fiction
- Part II. Manufacturing and Manipulating the Separate Spheres of Gender. Luddism, Needlework, and the Seams of Domesticity in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley ; Etiquette and Upper-Handedness in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair
- Part III. Handling the Perceptual Politics of Identity after Darwin. The Evolutionary Moment in Dickens's Great Expectations ; Racial Science and the Kabbalah in Eliot's Daniel Deronda
- Part IV. Plotting the Novelty of Manual Narratives. Handwriting and the hermeneutics of Detection in Dickens's Bleak House ; Narrative Red-Handedness in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Conclusion: The Victorians, the Twentieth Century, and Our Digital Present.