Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture / edited by Katharina Boehm.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Some essays evolved out of a conference, Bodies and Things: Victorian Literature and the Matter of Culture, held at the University of Oxford, in September 2008.

Introduction: bodies and things / Katharina Boehm -- Bodily things and thingly bodies : circumventing the subject-object binary / Isobel Armstrong -- Part I, Spaces: "The end of all the privacy and propriety" : Fanny's dressing room in Mansfield Park / Kirstyn Leuner -- Modes of wearing the towel : masculinity, insanity, and clothing in Trollope's "Turkish bath" / Catherine Spooner -- Travellers' bodies and pregnant things : Victorian women in imperial conflict zones / Muireann O'Cinneide -- Part II, Practices: Albums, belongings, and embodying the feminine / Samantha Matthews -- "Books in my hands, books in my heart, books in my brain" : bibliomania, the male body, and sensory erotics in late-Victorian literature / Victoria Mills -- Collecting and the body in late-Victorian and Edwardian museums / Kate Hill -- Part III, Performances: Aesthetic woman : the "fearful consequence" of "living up" to one's antiques / Anne Anderson -- The difference an object makes : conscious automaton theory and the decadent cult of artifice / Stefania Forlini -- Part IV, Epilogue: The bodies of things / Bill Brown.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index.