Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: bodies and things / Katharina Boehm
- Bodily things and thingly bodies: circumventing the subject-object binary / Isobel Armstrong
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Epilogue. The bodies of things / Bill Brown.