Changing hands : industry, evolution, and the reconfiguration of the Victorian body / Peter J. Capuano.
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Half-Lives of Hands
- Part I. Maneuvering Through Natural Theology and Industry. Shifting from Gaze to Grasp: "Odious Handywork" in Frankenstein ; The Anatomy of Anglican Industry: Mechanical Philosophy and Early Factory Fiction
- Part II. Manufacturing and Manipulating the Separate Spheres of Gender. Luddism, Needlework, and the Seams of Domesticity in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley ; Etiquette and Upper-Handedness in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair
- Part III. Handling the Perceptual Politics of Identity after Darwin. The Evolutionary Moment in Dickens's Great Expectations ; Racial Science and the Kabbalah in Eliot's Daniel Deronda
- Part IV. Plotting the Novelty of Manual Narratives. Handwriting and the hermeneutics of Detection in Dickens's Bleak House ; Narrative red-handedness in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Conclusion : the Victorians, the Twentieth Century, and Our Digital Present.