Embodied : Victorian literature and the senses.
Cohen, William A.
Embodied : Victorian literature and the senses. /William A. Cohen. - , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , ©2009. - xvi, 182 pages : illustrations : 24cm.
What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. What is human, they discovered, is nothing more or less than the human body itself. In literature of the period, as well as in scientific writing and journalism, the notion of an interior human essence came to be identified with the material existence of the body. The organs of sensory perception were understood as crucial routes of exchange between the interior and the external worlds. Anatomizing Victorian ideas of the human, William A. Cohen considers the meaning of sensory enc.
9780816650132
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Philosophy
Human body in literature
History
Mind and body in literature
820.9008 COH
Embodied : Victorian literature and the senses. /William A. Cohen. - , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , ©2009. - xvi, 182 pages : illustrations : 24cm.
What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. What is human, they discovered, is nothing more or less than the human body itself. In literature of the period, as well as in scientific writing and journalism, the notion of an interior human essence came to be identified with the material existence of the body. The organs of sensory perception were understood as crucial routes of exchange between the interior and the external worlds. Anatomizing Victorian ideas of the human, William A. Cohen considers the meaning of sensory enc.
9780816650132
Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
Philosophy
Human body in literature
History
Mind and body in literature
820.9008 COH
