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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
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Description for Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
Hardcover. 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, Bronte, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques. Editor(s): Boehm, Katharina. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230369382
SKU
V9780230369382
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99-15
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ANNE ANDERSON Independent scholar, UK ISOBEL ARMSTRONG Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BILL BROWN Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago, USA STEFANIA FORLINI Assistant Professor in English, University of Calgary, Canada KATE HILL Senior Lecturer in History, University of Lincoln, UK KIRSTYN LEUNER ... Read more
Reviews for Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
"This remarkable collection of essays makes an important contribution to the study of material culture in the nineteenth century, querying not just the obsessive prevalence of 'things' in the literature of the period but also the limits and margins of that material world." Journal of Victorian Culture "Isobel Armstrong contributes a brilliantly wide-ranging first chapter which forges ... Read more