Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• Author(s): K. Boehm,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 254
• ISBN_10: 1137283653
  ISBN_13: 9781137283658
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... 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.