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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Bodies and Things
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Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary
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Spaces
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Epilogue
Keywords
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Reviews
"This remarkable collection of essays makes an important contribution to the study of material culture in the nineteenth century, querying not just the obsessive prevalence of 'things' in the literature of the period but also the limits and margins of that material world." Journal of Victorian Culture
"Isobel Armstrong contributes a brilliantly wide-ranging first chapter which forges fascinating connections between (among other things) Jane Eyre's favourite plate, Karl Marx's commoditized table, and several grotesque vases from the Great Exhibition... Bodies and Things is worth picking up for Armstrong's essay alone, but the rest of the collection does not disappoint in taking up the questions she sets out... These works by historians, art historians, and scholars of literature and culture are well marshalled into a collection that makes a significant intervention into the study of the object in the nineteenth century." Beth Palmer, Modern Language Review
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Editors: Katharina Boehm
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283658
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36938-2Published: 22 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28365-8Published: 18 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 254
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural Anthropology