: Victorian literature and the senses Cohen, William A. creator William A. Cohen text Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , ©2009 monographic eng

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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. /William A. Cohen. Philosophy Human body in literature History Mind and body in literature 820.9008 COH 9780816650132 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi 240117 20240117101502.0