Format:
XI, 254 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
9780230369382
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0230369383
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Some essays evolved out of a conference, Bodies and Things: Victorian Literature and the Matter of Culture, held at the University of Oxford, in September 2008. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index
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Introduction: bodies and things
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Bodily things and thingly bodies: circumventing the subject-object binary
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Spaces. "The end of all the privacy and propriety": Fanny's dressing room in Mansfield Park
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Modes of wearing the towel: masculinity, insanity, and clothing in Trollope's "Turkish bath"
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Travellers bodies and pregnant things: Victorian women in imperial conflict zones
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Practices. Albums, belongings, and embodying the feminine
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"Books in my hands", "books in my heart", "Books in my brain": bibliomania, the male body, and sensory erotics in late-Victorian literature
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Collecting and the body in late-Victorian and Edwardian museums
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Performances. Aesthetic woman: The "fearful consequence" of "living up" to one's antiques
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The difference an object makes: conscious automaton theory and the decadent cult of artifice
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Epilogue. The bodies of things
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Kultur
;
Körper
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Boehm, Katharina 1984-
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