Introduction: The Victorian Tactile Imagination

This introduction reflects on the recent critical privileging of the visual in nineteenth-century studies, and considers the emergence of alternative readings of nineteenth-century culture that have focused on the wider human sensorium, and, in particular, touch. It suggests that the tactile imagina...

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Main Author: Heather Tilley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2014-10-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/723