Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses

by William A. Cohen and William A. Cohen

Making sense of the body in Victorian literature

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816650136
• ISBN13: 9780816650132
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"