In this Book
- Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
In Changing Hands, Peter J. Capuano sifts through Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labor, gender, class, and racial categorization, using “hands” (the “distinguishing mark of . . . humanity”) as the primary point of reference. Capuano complicates his study by situating the historical argument in the context of questions about the disappearance of hands during the twentieth century into the haze of figurative meaning. Out of this curious aporia, Capuano exposes a powerful, “embodied handedness” as the historical basis for many of the uncritically metaphoric, metonymic, and/or ideogrammatic approaches to the study of the human body in recent critical discourse.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xv
- Part I: Maneuvering Through Natural Theology and Industry
- Part II: Manufacturing and Manipulating the Separate Spheres of Gender
- Part III: Handling the Perceptual Politics of Identity after Darwin
- Part IV: Plotting the Novelty of Manual Narratives
- Bibliography
- pp. 285-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472121403
Related ISBN(s)
9780472052844, 9780472072842
MARC Record
OCLC
911665822
Pages
340
Launched on MUSE
2015-06-27
Language
English
Open Access
No