Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science

ISBN-13: 9780813943428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

David Sweeney Coombs

Opis

Examining novels and art criticism by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater alongside scientific works by Hermann von Helmholtz, William James, and others, this book shows how Victorian literature offers us ways not just to touch but to grapple with the material realities that Clifford Geertz called the ""hard surfaces of life"".