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028 _a: Zafaa Books & Distributors
_b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
_c: ZBD0317
_d: 09/01/2024
082 _a820.9008 COH
100 _aCohen, William A.
245 _aEmbodied
_b: Victorian literature and the senses.
_c/William A. Cohen.
260 _a, Minneapolis
_b: University of Minnesota Press
_c, ©2009.
300 _axvi, 182 pages
_b : illustrations
_c: 24cm.
365 _b1656
520 _aWhat 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.
650 _aPhilosophy
650 _aHuman body in literature
650 _aHistory
650 _aMind and body in literature
700 _aWilliam A. Cohen
942 _cBOOK
999 _c61398
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