Touch, sexuality, and hands in British literature, 1740-1901. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kimberly Cox.
• Authors: Cox, Kimberly
• Contents: Introduction: Touching the Victorians: A Theoretical Context 1. When Hands Touch: "’Tis Hard to Give the Hand Where the Heart Can Never Be" 2. A Language of Touch? 3. Grip, Clasp, Embrace: Reciprocation and Proximity Chapter 1: Rape: Hand-Grabbing in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa 1. Nonconsensual Touch in Tess of the D’Urbervilles 2. Hands and Haptics in the Eighteenth-Century 3. Conduct Manuals: The Social and Sexual Dangers of Uninvited Touch 4. Clarissa’s Hands, Robert’s Grasp: Violent Seizure, Nonreciprocal Touch, and Assault 5. Uninvited: Hand-Grabbing As Sexual Violation Chapter 2: Attraction: Reciprocal Touch in the Conduct Fiction of Fanny Burney and Jane Austen 1. Aggression to Affection: A New Type of Literary Touch 2. Rape, Legal Discourse, and Haptic Experience in Evelina 3. Defining Consent: Violence Versus Reciprocity 4. Consensual and Nonconsensual Contact in Burney’s Evelina 5. Tactile Reciprocity and Female Sexual Subjectivity in Austen’s Emma Chapter 3: Desire: Transgressing Handshake Etiquette in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1. Etiquette and Invitation: Consensual, Reciprocal Handshakes in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2. Negotiating Desire: Invited Touch in Jane Eyre 3. Shifting Masculinity, Female Agency, and Tactile Intimacy 4. Materializing Self-Realization through Haptic Reciprocity Chapter 4: Sexuality: The Tactile Erotics of Gloved and Ungloved Touch 1. Safety in Surfaces: Glove Etiquette, Class, and Respectability 2. Surfaces of Safety: A History of Gloves and "Gloves" 3. Maintaining Surfaces: Exerting the Glove in Emma and Tess of the D’Urbervilles 4. Constructing Surfaces: Controlling the Glove in In the Year of Jubilee 5. Transgressing Surfaces: Penetrating the Glove in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Odd Women, and "On the Western Circuit" A. Affection on the Surface B. Desire beneath the Surface 5. Conclusion: Controlling the Glove Chapter 5: Orientation: Queer Touch, Proximity, and Erotic Potential 1. Queer Touch and Disorientation: Becoming "off line" 2. Intensifying Proximity: Nearness and Tactile Intimacy in The Picture of Dorian Gray 3. Pressure: Men Touching Men 4. Clinging: Women Touching Women 5. Praying: Clinging Hands in Adam Bede 6. The Queer Potentiality of Literary Touch Epilogue: Touching Ourselves: A Neo-Victorian Case Study 1. Continuity: (Un)Invited, (Non)Reciprocal Touch in Neo-Victorian Fiction 2. Reimagining Female Tactile Power in Fingersmith and The Parasol Protectorate 3. Futurity: Touching Forward
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.9353; Touch in literature; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Hand in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000431995; 9781000431933; 9781003202455
• Related ISBNs: 9781032064734
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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