Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses by William A. Cohen

By William A. Cohen

What does it suggest to be human? British writers within the Victorian interval discovered a stunning resolution to this question. what's human, they found, is not anything roughly than the human physique itself. In literature of the interval, in addition to in clinical writing and journalism, the idea of an inside human essence got here to be pointed out with the cloth life of the physique. The organs of sensory notion have been understood as an important routes of alternate among the internal and the exterior worlds. Anatomizing Victorian principles of the human, William A. Cohen considers the that means of sensory encounters in works by means of writers together with Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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