Description
| Product ID: | 9781107538917 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |
| Title: | The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination |
| Authors: | Author: Aviva Briefel |
| Page Count: | 234 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , History, Colonialism and imperialism, Cultural studies, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Cultural studies, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siècle. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-19 |