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Author: William Cohen
Publishing date: 2008
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 encounters in works by writers including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Rather than regarding the bodily exterior as
69.30 zł
Humor and Revelation in...

Humor and Revelation in American Literature

Author: Pascal Covici
Publishing date: 1996
This work argues that much of the humour from which the young Mark Twain derived much of his early models had the same sort of arrogance as American Puritan thought. It also considers the work of writers such as Hawthorne, Melville and Howells.
189.00 zł
Spheres of Action

Spheres of Action

Author: A Dick
Publishing date: 2009
Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.
225.75 zł