The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781107116580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 236 str.

Aviva Briefel

Opis

A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.

Recenzje

'… rich, cogent, and eminently readable … Briefel's book is an indispensable part of an emerging area of focus in nineteenth-century studies … Marshaling a rich array of historical, scientific, popular, and literary texts with a deft and restrained critical touch, Briefel has offered the reader a gift - one dropped gently into our hands.' Daniel A. Novak, Novel: A Forum on Fiction

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility; 2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work; 3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution; 4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire; 5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo; Coda; Bibliography.