Title Changing hands : industry, evolution, and the reconfiguration of the Victorian body / Peter J. Capuano

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-316) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Human body in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Mind and body in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. English fiction Human body in literature Literature and society Mind and body in literature Englisch Literatur Körper Motiv Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020707156 ISBN 9780472121403 0472121405

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