Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

1. Introduction: Bodies and Things

1. Introduction: Bodies and Things
Katharina Boehm

2. Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary

2. Bodily Things and Thingly Bodies: Circumventing the Subject-Object Binary
Isobel Armstrong

Part I. Spaces

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

Kirstyn Leuner

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

5. Travellers’ Bodies and Pregnant Things: Victorian Women in Imperial Conflict Zones
Muireann O’Cinneide

Part II. Practices

6. Albums, Belongings, and Embodying the Feminine
Samantha Matthews

7. ‘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

8. Collecting and the Body in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Museums
Kate Hill

Part III. Performances

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

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

Part IV. Epilogue

11. The Bodies of Things
Bill Brown

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature