The racial hand in the Victorian imagination /
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Author / Creator: | Briefel, Aviva, author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
Description: | x, 218 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 102 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 102. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10378058 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The case of the blank hand: race and manual legibility; 2. Potters and prosthetics: putting Indian hands to work; 3. The mummy's hand: art and evolution; 4. A hand for a hand: punishment, responsibility, and imperial desire; 5. Crimes of the hand: manual violence and the Congo.