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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

  • Katharina Boehm
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture book series (PNWC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Bodies and Things

    1. Introduction: Bodies and Things
      Katharina Boehm
      Pages 1-16

  3. Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary

    1. Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary
      Isobel Armstrong
      Pages 17-41

  4. Spaces

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 43-43
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    2. ‘The end of all the privacy and propriety’: Fanny’s Dressing Room in Mansfield Park
      Kirstyn Leuner
      Pages 45-65
    3. Modes of Wearing the Towel: Masculinity, Insanity, and Clothing in Trollope’s ‘The Turkish Bath’
      Catherine Spooner
      Pages 66-83
    4. Travellers’ Bodies and Pregnant Things: Victorian Women in Imperial Conflict Zones
      Muireann O’Cinneide
      Pages 84-103

  5. Practices

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 105-105
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    2. Albums, Belongings, and Embodying the Feminine
      Samantha Matthews
      Pages 107-129
    3. ‘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
      Pages 130-152
    4. Collecting and the Body in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Museums
      Kate Hill
      Pages 153-174

  6. Performances

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 175-175
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    2. Aesthetic Woman: The ‘Fearful Consequence’ of ‘Living Up’ to One’s Antiques
      Anne Anderson
      Pages 177-196
    3. The Difference an Object Makes: Conscious Automaton Theory and the Decadent Cult of Artifice
      Stefania Forlini
      Pages 197-217

  7. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 219-219
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    2. The Bodies of Things
      Bill Brown
      Pages 221-228
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 229-254
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About this book

Introduction

This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

Keywords

Charles Dickens Cultural Studies culture English literature Jane Austen literary studies technology

Editors and affiliations

  • Katharina Boehm
    • 1
  1. 1.University of RegensburgGermany

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