The Racial Hand In The Victorian Imagination

The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.

• | By (Author): Aviva (Bowdoin College, Maine) Briefel
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1107538912
• | ISBN-13: 9781107538917