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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; John Webster; Mark Twain; William Shakespeare; John Webster; Mark Twain; William Shakespeare; John Webster; Mark Twain; William (1564-1616) Shakespeare; John (1580?-1625?) Webster; Mark (1835-1910) Twain |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Katherine Rowe |
ISBN: | 0804733856 9780804733854 |
OCLC Number: | 41958900 |
Description: | xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: essentialism, agency and the exemplary hand -- Divine complicity: God's handy worke and the anatomist's touch -- Effectless use: dismembering and forgetting in Titus Andronicus -- That curious engine: action at a distance in The Duchess of Malfi -- The beast with five fingers: gothic labor relations in Victorian ghost stories -- Involuntary confession: Pudd'nhead Wilson and law-enforcement mythology -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Katherine Rowe. |
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Abstract:
Dead Hands traces the fascinating career of a curious imaginative device: the wandering, disembodied, or ghostly hand. Dexterously threading historical, theoretical, and formalist questions, the author situates this familiar gothic convention in its rich literary and intellectual contexts, from early modern English drama through American fiction.
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"[Rowe] offers. . . . theoretical eclecticism, meticulous research, and careful attention to texts to yield original and nuanced readings of agency in process." -- <I>Modern Philology</I> "A series of richly historicized readings which highlight multiplicity, complexity, and ironic self-questioning rather than adherence to a uniform and culturally determined version of the self." -- <I>Modern Philology</I> Read more...
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- English literature -- History and criticism.
- Hand in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Titus Andronicus.
- Ghost stories, English -- History and criticism.
- Webster, John, -- 1580?-1625? -- Duchess of Malfi.
- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910. -- Pudd'nhead Wilson.
- Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Death in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Titus Andronicus.
- Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
- Main dans la littérature.
- Histoires de fantômes anglaises -- Histoire et critique.
- Agent (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
- Corps humain dans la littérature.
- Mort dans la littérature.
- Duchess of Malfi (Webster, John)
- Pudd'nhead Wilson (Twain, Mark)
- Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare, William)
- English literature.
- Ghost stories, English.
- Literaire thema's.
- Handen.
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). -- Titus Andronicus.
- Webster, John (1580?-1625?). -- Duchess of Malfi.
- Twain, Mark (1835-1910). -- Pudd'nhead Wilson.
- Main -- Dans l'art.
- Mort -- Dans la littérature.
- Fantômes -- Dans la littérature.
- Littérature anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs.
- Main -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme.
- Roman gothique.
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