Dead hands

Hardcover • 1999 • English

Dead hands: fictions of agency, Renaissance to modern

By Katherine Rowe

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About the book

Dead Hands traces the fascinating career of a curious imaginative device: the wandering, disembodied, or ghostly hand. The author situates this familiar gothic convention in its richer literary and intellectual contexts, from early modern English drama through American fiction. Dexterously threading historical, theoretical, and formalist questions through readings of the plays of Shakespeare and Webster and the haunted tales of Maupassant, Le Fanu, and Twain, the book illuminates the complex soc...Show more

Literary studies: general

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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ISBN

9780804733854

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Dead hands

Format

Hardcover

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