Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740-1901, Hardcover

by Kimberly Cox

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Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1, Hardcover by Cox, Kimberly, ISBN 1032064730, ISBN-13 9781032064734, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "From Robert Lovelace's uninvited hand grasps in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa to Jane Eyre's sexual awakening at Edward Rochester's embrace to Basil Hallward's first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles, sexuality, and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands, tactility, and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we interpret what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by Jane Austen, the Brontèes, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analysis of paintings, musical compositions, and nonfictional texts, such as etiquetts and scientific treatises, to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions o

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1740
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781032064734
• Condition: Fine

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