Aviva Briefel (Maine Bowdoin College)

Broschiertes Buch

The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

Beschreibung

The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de sià cle.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107538917
• ISBN-10: 1107538912
• Artikelnr.: 48809050