Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
Autor Peter Capuanoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2015
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. Out of this curious aporia, 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780472072842
ISBN-10: 0472072846
Pagini: 340
Ilustrații: 57 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10: 0472072846
Pagini: 340
Ilustrații: 57 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Notă biografică
Peter J. Capuano is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a faculty member of the University of California's Dickens Project.
Recenzii
“Changing Hands is a major contribution to Victorian studies, revealing the human hand as a fascinating nexus for the scientific, industrial, religious, and social upheavals of the age. Capuano’s provocative examples and arguments freshly illuminate the whole landscape of nineteenth-century writing: this is a manual for our critical moment.”
—Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
—Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
“Changing Hands offers a revelatory account of the impact of industrialism and evolutionary discourse on conceptions of human agency and identity, which Peter Capuano brilliantly elicits from figurations of the human hand. In capturing the pervasive importance of a trope long hidden in plain sight, Capuano transfigures a broad range of nineteenth-century reflection.”
—James Eli Adams, Columbia University
—James Eli Adams, Columbia University
“This book will change the way we read the bodies of Victorian characters; Capuano alerts us to the importance of a signifier so ubiquitous in the literature as to have become invisible. No longer! Changing Hands is a well-written, highly readable volume offering a significant scholarly payload. Scholars will be citing and extending this work for some time to come.”
—Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida
—Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida
Shortlisted: British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) 2015 Book Award
Descriere
A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction