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Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching

Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching

Gagné, Ann

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1793617309
ISBN13: 9781793617309
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 28 2021
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching explores the importance of sensory studies in mid to late-Victorian literature. Ann Gagné reconciles the social and cultural issues surrounding embodiment, particularly gendered embodiment, through the lens of tactility and how touch can function as embodied residue. The main focus on tactility highlights bodily interactions through narrative description and positions lived experience as narrated and witnessed on the body through touch. By exploring four distinct types of tactility--reciprocal touch, architectural touch, self-touch, and telepathic touch--found in Victorian literature, Gagné reveals a larger social and cultural focus on ethics, care, the built environment, and pedagogy. Through analyses of more canonical texts such as Goblin Market alongside lesser known works by canonical authors such as Wilkie Collins's Mrs. Zant and the Ghost, Gagné demonstrates how these same sensory considerations continue to be important today.

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