Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740-1901
From Robert Lovelace's uninvited hand grasps in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to Jane Eyre's sexual awakening at Edward Rochester's embrace 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 interpret ¿what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by as…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-043193-3
- EAN: 9781000431933
- Produktnummer: 35913380
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 0, 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 14 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Kimberly Cox is Assistant Professor ¿of English at Chadron State College where she teaches courses in British literature, gender and sexuality, multiethnic literature, the novel, 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 2016-18. Her work on hands, haptics, and sexuality has appeared in Victorian Network, Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature, ¿Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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