The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination, Paperback

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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Aviva (Bowdoin College, Maine) Briefel
• Illustration(s): 12 Halftones, unspecified; 12 Halftones, black and white
• Number of pages: 234
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Publication date: 2017
• Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 13
• Cover type: Paperback / softback