The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

by Aviva Briefel

Book Overview

The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of the body that tried to come to terms with the limits of racial identification. While religious, scientific, and literary discourses privileged hands as sites of physiognomic information, none of these found plausible explanations for what these body parts could convey about ethnicity. As compensation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107538912
• ISBN13: 9781107538917
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"