Titlebook: Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Katharina Boehm Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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Introduction: Bodies and Thingsimate, physiological rapport that exists between subjects and objects. Departing from Cartesian dualism, the passage suggests that the shared materiality — ‘phosphorus and lime and delicate fibres’ — of the human body and inanimate matter makes it impossible to define with any precision where the se

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‘The end of all the privacy and propriety’: Fanny’s Dressing Room in ,erary scholars as well. Critics drawn to investigate the significance of this room have discussed its constellation of identities, including that of a study, library, sitting room, theatre, and storeroom. Miranda Burgess, for example, refers to the East room as ‘Fanny’s British Museum’ in which she

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Modes of Wearing the Towel: Masculinity, Insanity, and Clothing in Trollope’s ‘The Turkish Bath’muscular bearded fellow with a large checked towel draped around his waist and another flung nonchalantly over his shoulder, accosts his similarly attired companion with the words: ‘I say, Brown, come and Dine with us to-day, to meet Robinson and his Sisters. No fuss or Ceremony, you know! Come just

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‘Books in my Hands — Books in my Heart — Books in my Brain’: Bibliomania, the Male Body, and Sensory’ is a jealously guarded find. ‘Give it back!’ the poet commands, allowing the reader possession of the volume for a fleeting moment. The passage suggests a corporeal relationship between collector and object as the book bears traces of the body of its author (his ‘brains, high-blooded’), which tran

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