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1044777
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b799147
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Cohen, William A.
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Embodied : : Victorian literature and the senses /\ William A. Cohen.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816666520
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0816650128
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0816650136
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9780816650125
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9780816650132
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-173) and index.
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| Contents
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Subject: embodiment and the senses -- Self: material interiority in Dickens and Bronte -- Skin: surface and sensation in Trollope's "The banks of the Jordan" -- Senses: face and feeling in Hardy's The return of the native -- Soul: inside Hopkins.
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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 enc.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body in literature.
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Mind and body in literature.
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Psychology and literature-- History-- 19th century.
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Self in literature.
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Senses and sensation in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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English literature.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Mind and body in literature.
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Psychology and literature.
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Self in literature.
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Senses and sensation in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/008
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PR468.S43C65 2009eb
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