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 encounters in works by writers including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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"Remarkable, rare, and full of elegant, ineluctable insights, Embodied is unfailingly smart. Readers across many disciplines will grasp how the Victorians advanced ahead of postmodern dicta as they forged materialist thought, even when they talked in terms of mind and soul. An exquisite study." —Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah
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ISBN
9780816650125
Publisert
2008-12-16
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Minnesota Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
216