Bodies And Things In Nineteenth Century Literature And Culture
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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
Author | : K. Boehm |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-02-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137283658 |
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This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
Author | : Ryan Sweet |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2021-12-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030785895 |
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This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.
Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
Author | : Sibylle Baumbach,Ulla Ratheiser |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030753979 |
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This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of literary narratives, paintings, and film but also into natural surfaces such as skin or bark. Each chapter foregrounds what is present rather than absent in a text, while also paying attention to the surfaces that become manifest on the diegetic level of the text, be they cloth, landscapes, or human bodies or faces. This is an open access book.
Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth to Twenty First Century Anglophone Literature
Author | : Jaine Chemmachery,Bhawana Jain |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781793625687 |
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Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility and body studies in Anglophone literature from the 19th century to the 21st century. Corporeal mobility includes a variety of mobile bodies that have long been othered and marginalised due to issues pertaining to gender, disability, race, and class. Yet there is a relative lack of academic work on it, despite the fact that Anglophone literature has increasingly portrayed the circulation of characters, objects, and information since the 19th century, echoing the many types of mobility that have occurred through processes of colonisation, decolonisation and globalisation. This book, therefore, discusses the ways in which literatures produced in the English-speaking world challenge normative depictions of bodies on the move and reconceptualise them by making corporeality an essential feature of movement across the world.
Literature and Medicine
Author | : Clark Lawlor,Andrew Mangham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108420747 |
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Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the nineteenth-century.
Material Theories
Author | : Elena Chestnova |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2022-06-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781000594089 |
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Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style. This book demonstrates how Semper’s theories crystallised among his encounters with material things of the late 1840s and early 1850s. It examines several discursive frameworks and phenomena which shaped the attitude to artefacts in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and which were specifically pertinent to Semper’s evolution: archaeology and antiquarianism, the domestic interior, print media, collections, and the embodied relationship between the designer and their work. For the first time, this book examines the construction of a design theory not only as an intellectual endeavour but also as a process of confrontation with material things. It employs recent approaches to material culture, in particular Thing Theory, in order to show that Semper’s artefact references constituted his ideas, rather than simply giving impetus to them. It will be an important investigation for academics and researchers interested in interior design history, as well as scholars of material culture and history of design theory.
The Victorian Novel Service Work and the Nineteenth Century Economy
Author | : Joshua Gooch |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781137525512 |
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This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.
Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture
Author | : Deborah Lutz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107077447 |
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This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.