Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740-1901

ISBN-13: 9781032064734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str.

Kimberly Cox

Opis

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century.　

O autorze

Kimberly Cox is Assistant Professor ​of English at Chadron State College, where she teaches courses in British literature, gender and sexuality, multiethnic literature, literary theory, and composition. She received her PhD in Victorian literature and her graduate certificate in women’s and gender studies from Stony Brook University. She served as managing editor of Victorian Literature and Culture from 2016 to 2018. Her work on hands, haptics, and sexuality has appeared in Victorian Network, Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature, ​Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the journal for which she recently coedited the special issue "'Teaching to Transgress' in the Emergency Remote Classroom."