TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen, William A.
AU  - William A. Cohen
TI  - Embodied : : Victorian literature and the senses
SN  - 9780816650132
U1  - 820.9008 COH 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - , Minneapolis
PB  - : University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - History
KW  - Mind and body in literature
N2  - 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
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