| Description |
xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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| 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 |
| 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 and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Human body in literature -- Congresses.
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Art objects in literature -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- England -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- England -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Boehm, Katharina, 1984-
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| LC no. |
2012033374 |
| ISBN |
9780230369382 |
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0230369383 |
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