Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katharina Boehm.
• Editors: Boehm, Katharina
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages), (9 illustrations)
• Subjects: 809.034; Literature; Literature, Modern -- 19th century; British literature; Medicine in Literature; Human Body; Anthropology/Cultural; European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; British literature; Literature; Literature, Modern; Englisch; Literatur; Körper; Objekt; Sachkultur
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137136114; 1137136111; 9781137283658; 1137283653; 9781349596300; 1349596302
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.