Victorian Hands
Author: Peter J. Capuano
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-19
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780814214398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.
Author: Peter J. Capuano
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-19
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780814214398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.
Author: Peter Capuano
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-06
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0472052845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction
Author: Ariel Beaujot
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1847886825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-04-09
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1400842182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author: Aviva Briefel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1107116589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.
Author: Thora Hands
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 331992964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0374117292
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Author: Kimberly Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-05
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1000431991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles, sexuality, and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands, tactility, and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings, musical compositions, and nonfictional texts, such as etiquette books and scientific treatises, to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so, it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.
Author: Chris Woodyard
Publisher: Kestrel Publications (OH)
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780988192522
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