Changing Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Hands write by Peter Capuano. This book was released on 2015-06. Changing Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction
Victorian Hands
Victorian Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Hands write by Peter J. Capuano. This book was released on 2020. Victorian Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.
Victorian Fashion Accessories
Victorian Fashion Accessories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Fashion Accessories write by Ariel Beaujot. This book was released on 2012-02-28. Victorian Fashion Accessories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain write by Leah Price. This book was released on 2012-04-09. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Death in Her Hands
Death in Her Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in Her Hands write by Ottessa Moshfegh. This book was released on 2020-08-27. Death in Her Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The Times While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate? From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. __________________________ PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER HANDS: 'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian 'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker 'Dark, devious' Observer 'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman 'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard 'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times
