Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

K. Boehm

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Oct 22, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 254 pages

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.

About the author

ANNE ANDERSON Independent scholar, UK ISOBEL ARMSTRONG Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BILL BROWN Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago, USA STEFANIA FORLINI Assistant Professor in English, University of Calgary, Canada KATE HILL Senior Lecturer in History, University of Lincoln, UK KIRSTYN LEUNER Doctoral candidate in English, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA SAMANTHA MATTHEWS Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK VICTORIA MILLS Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MUIREANN O'CINNEIDE Lecturer in English, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland CATHERINE SPOONER Senior Lecturer in English, Lancaster University, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Editor: K. Boehm
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012
• ISBN: 0230369383, 9780230369382
• Length: 254 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / General