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Embodied : Victorian literature and the senses / / William A. Cohen



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Autore: Cohen William A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Embodied : Victorian literature and the senses / / William A. Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/008
Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History 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 literature - History - 19th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-173) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 enc
Titolo autorizzato: Embodied  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6652-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811000803321
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