Aviva Briefel

The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781107116580
• ISBN-10: 1107116589
• Artikelnr.: 42791478

Autorenporträt

Aviva Briefel is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, Maine. She is the author of The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (2006) and the co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility
2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work
3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution
4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire
5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo
Coda
Bibliography.