Kimberly Cox

Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740-1901

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century.¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781032064758
• ISBN-10: 1032064757
• Artikelnr.: 67825059

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Cox is Assistant Professor ¿of English at Chadron State College, where she teaches courses in British literature, gender and sexuality, multiethnic literature, literary theory, and composition. She received her PhD in Victorian literature and her graduate certificate in women's and gender studies from Stony Brook University. She served as managing editor of Victorian Literature and Culture from 2016 to 2018. Her work on hands, haptics, and sexuality has appeared in Victorian Network, Victorians: Journal of Culture and Literature, ¿Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the journal for which she recently coedited the special issue "'Teaching to Transgress' in the Emergency Remote Classroom."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Touching the Victorians: A Theoretical Context
1. When Hands Touch: "'Tis Hard to Give the Hand Where the Heart Can Never
Be"
2. A Language of Touch?
3. Grip, Clasp, Embrace: Reciprocation and Proximity
Chapter 1: Rape: Hand-Grabbing in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
1. Nonconsensual Touch in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Hands and Haptics in the Eighteenth-Century
3. Conduct Manuals: The Social and Sexual Dangers of Uninvited Touch
4. Clarissa's Hands, Robert's Grasp: Violent Seizure, Nonreciprocal Touch,
and Assault
5. Uninvited: Hand-Grabbing As Sexual Violation
Chapter 2: Attraction: Reciprocal Touch in the Conduct Fiction of Fanny
Burney and Jane Austen
1. Aggression to Affection: A New Type of Literary Touch
2. Rape, Legal Discourse, and Haptic Experience in Evelina
3. Defining Consent: Violence Versus Reciprocity
4. Consensual and Nonconsensual Contact in Burney's Evelina
5. Tactile Reciprocity and Female Sexual Subjectivity in Austen's Emma
Chapter 3: Desire: Transgressing Handshake Etiquette in Jane Eyre and The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1. Etiquette and Invitation: Consensual, Reciprocal Handshakes in The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
2. Negotiating Desire: Invited Touch in Jane Eyre
3. Shifting Masculinity, Female Agency, and Tactile Intimacy
4. Materializing Self-Realization through Haptic Reciprocity
Chapter 4: Sexuality: The Tactile Erotics of Gloved and Ungloved Touch
1. Safety in Surfaces: Glove Etiquette, Class, and Respectability
2. Surfaces of Safety: A History of Gloves and "Gloves"
3. Maintaining Surfaces: Exerting the Glove in Emma and Tess of the
D'Urbervilles
4. Constructing Surfaces: Controlling the Glove in In the Year of Jubilee
5. Transgressing Surfaces: Penetrating the Glove in The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall, The Odd Women, and "On the Western Circuit"
A. Affection on the Surface
B. Desire beneath the Surface
6. Controlling the Glove
Chapter 5: Orientation: Queer Touch, Proximity, and Erotic Potential
1. Queer Touch and Disorientation: Becoming "off line"
2. Intensifying Proximity: Nearness and Tactile Intimacy in The Picture of
Dorian Gray
3. Pressure: Men Touching Men
4. Clinging: Women Touching Women
5. Praying: Clinging Hands in Adam Bede
6. The Queer Potentiality of Literary Touch
Epilogue: Touching Ourselves: A Neo-Victorian Case Study
1. Continuity: (Un)Invited, (Non)Reciprocal Touch in Neo-Victorian Fiction
2. Reimagining Female Tactile Power in Fingersmith and The Parasol
Protectorate
3. Futurity: Touching Forward