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Embodied

- Victorian Literature and the Senses
Af: William A. Cohen Engelsk Paperback

Embodied

- Victorian Literature and the Senses
Af: William A. Cohen Engelsk Paperback
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Making sense of the body in Victorian literature

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. Rather than regarding the bodily exterior as the primary location in which identity categories—such as gender, sexuality, race, and disability—are expressed, he focuses on the interior experience of sensation, whereby these politics come to be felt.

In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses.

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Making sense of the body in Victorian literature

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. Rather than regarding the bodily exterior as the primary location in which identity categories—such as gender, sexuality, race, and disability—are expressed, he focuses on the interior experience of sensation, whereby these politics come to be felt.

In these elegant engagements with literary works, cultural history, and critical theory, Cohen advances a phenomenological approach to embodiment, proposing that we encounter the world not through our minds or souls but through our senses.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9780816650132
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0816650136
Kategori: Irland
Udg. Dato: 16 dec 2008
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato: 16 dec 2008
Forfatter(e): William A. Cohen
Forfatter(e) William A. Cohen

Kategori Irland

ISBN-13 9780816650132

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 16 dec 2008

Oplagsdato 16 dec 2008

Forlag University of Minnesota Press