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Using hybrid digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, this book shows how Charles Dickens developed a distinctive idiomatic style, deeply rooted in bodily expression, which eventually emerged as a fundamental dimension to the way the "Inimitable" imagined his most mature and fictional worlds"--

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Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging body of work that seeks to remedy this. Casting new light on an array of well-known authors-Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Georg...

Explores Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labour, gender, class, and racial categorization, using "hands” as the primary point of reference. Peter J. Capuano complicates his study by situating the historical argument in the context of questions about the disappearance of hands during the twentieth century into the haze of figurative meaning.

Explores Victorian literature and culture for changes in the way the human body is imagined in the face of urgent questions about creation, labour, gender, class, and racial categorization, using "hands” as the primary point of reference. Peter J. Capuano complicates his study by situating the historical argument in the context of questions about the disappearance of hands during the twentieth century into the haze of figurative meaning.