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Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
Peter Capuano
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Description for Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
Hardcover. A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072842
SKU
V9780472072842
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99-15
About Peter Capuano
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.
Reviews for Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
“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 “Changing Hands offers a revelatory ... Read more