Title Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture / edited by Katharina Boehm

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Click on the following:
Springer eBooks
Springer Media & Culture eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents Introduction: bodies and things / Katharina Boehm -- Bodily things and thingly bodies : circumventing the subject-object binary / Isobel Armstrong -- Part I, Spaces: "The end of all the privacy and propriety" : Fanny's dressing room in Mansfield Park / Kirstyn Leuner -- Modes of wearing the towel : masculinity, insanity, and clothing in Trollope's "Turkish bath" / Catherine Spooner -- Travellers' bodies and pregnant things : Victorian women in imperial conflict zones / Muireann O'Cinneide -- Part II, Practices: Albums, belongings, and embodying the feminine / Samantha Matthews -- "Books in my hands, books in my heart, books in my brain" : bibliomania, the male body, and sensory erotics in late-Victorian literature / Victoria Mills -- Collecting and the body in late-Victorian and Edwardian museums / Kate Hill -- Part III, Performances: Aesthetic woman : the "fearful consequence" of "living up" to one's antiques / Anne Anderson -- The difference an object makes : conscious automaton theory and the decadent cult of artifice / Stefania Forlini -- Part IV, Epilogue: The bodies of things / Bill Brown Summary In the nineteenth century, the relationship between the human body and the object world was redefined by momentous social, cultural, and scientific changes. This book traces the emergence of an exciting range of ideas about materiality, phenomenological experience, and the realm of objects in nineteenth-century literature and culture. The book features contributions by leading specialists in the field as well as the work of younger colleagues. The collection sheds new light on the porous boundaries, affinities, and frictions between bodies and things in the nineteenth-century imagination by drawing on the insights of gender studies, postcolonial studies, the history of science, and performance studies. The contributors explore canonical nineteenth-century works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront︠, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, alongside less-familiar texts, such as travelogues, cartoons and scientific treatises, and a wide range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques Notes 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses Human body in literature -- Congresses Human body -- Social aspects -- England -- Congresses Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- England -- Congresses Medicine in literature. Medicine in Literature Human Body LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Human body in literature English fiction Human body Human body -- Social aspects Human body -- Symbolic aspects Literature Englisch Literatur Körper Motiv Objekt Philosophie Sachkultur England Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Boehm, Katharina, 1984- ISBN 9781137283658 1137283653

  Permalink