03086nam 2200709Ia 450 991081100080332120200520144314.00-8166-6652-0(CKB)1000000000721631(EBL)433174(OCoLC)310982766(SSID)ssj0000145693(PQKBManifestationID)11152155(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145693(PQKBWorkID)10157193(PQKB)11288545(MdBmJHUP)muse39072(Au-PeEL)EBL433174(CaPaEBR)ebr10274275(CaONFJC)MIL523394(MiAaPQ)EBC433174(EXLCZ)99100000000072163120080724d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmbodied[electronic resource] Victorian literature and the senses /William A. CohenMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (200 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5013-6 0-8166-5012-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-173) and index.Subject: embodiment and the senses -- Self: material interiority in Dickens and Bronte -- Skin: surface and sensation in Trollope's "The banks of the Jordan" -- Senses: face and feeling in Hardy's The return of the native -- Soul: inside Hopkins.What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. What is human, they discovered, is nothing more or less than the human body itself. In literature of the period, as well as in scientific writing and journalism, the notion of an interior human essence came to be identified with the material existence of the body. The organs of sensory perception were understood as crucial routes of exchange between the interior and the external worlds. Anatomizing Victorian ideas of the human, William A. Cohen considers the meaning of sensory encEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSenses and sensation in literatureSelf in literatureSubjectivity in literatureMind and body in literatureHuman body in literatureHuman body (Philosophy)Psychology and literatureHistory19th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Senses and sensation in literature.Self in literature.Subjectivity in literature.Mind and body in literature.Human body in literature.Human body (Philosophy)Psychology and literatureHistory820.9/008Cohen William A113510MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811000803321Embodied3971255UNINA