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Ann Gagné - Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature, Inbunden

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Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature

Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching

Av Ann Gagné

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-01-28
  • Mått: 162 x 228 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 399 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 150
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781793617309
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Ann Gagné is educational developer at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

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Ann Gagné’s innovative cultural history of touch in the nineteenth century traces the ways in which tactility gets imagined and politicized through literary form. Drawing together phenomenology, disability studies, medical history, and literary studies, Gagné’s project historicizes touch as it constitutes identities through bodily contact that became increasingly surveilled and policed by Victorian public health. This situating of touch and its many incarnations within a set of ideological debates about its intercorporeal quality prompts Gagné’s urgent meditation on the ethics of tactility as a social and cultural experience tied to how we care for one another. Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching offers accessible, interdisciplinary readings of tactility that reconceptualize the seemingly quotidian experience of touch in terms of a nuanced, relational theory of the tactile.

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