Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Bodies and Things

Chapter 3 ‘The end of all the privacy and propriety’: Fanny’s Dressing Room in Mansfield Park

Chapter 4 Modes of Wearing the Towel: Masculinity, Insanity, and Clothing in Trollope’s ‘The Turkish Bath’

Chapter 5 Travellers’ Bodies and Pregnant Things: Victorian Women in Imperial Conflict Zones

Chapter 6 Albums, Belongings, and Embodying the Feminine

Chapter 7 ‘Books in my Hands — Books in my Heart — Books in my Brain’: Bibliomania, the Male Body, and Sensory Erotics in Late-Victorian Literature

Chapter 8 Collecting and the Body in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Museums

Chapter 9 Aesthetic Woman: The ‘Fearful Consequence’ of ‘Living Up’ to One’s Antiques

Chapter 10 The Difference an Object Makes: Conscious Automaton Theory and the Decadent Cult of Artifice

Chapter 11 The Bodies of Things