Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction Handling Flesh and Metaphor
Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka
Part I Hands: Whole and Part
Chapter 1 The Anatomy of Anglican Industry: Mechanical Philosophy and Early Factory Fiction
Peter J. Capuano
Chapter 2 Lost Hands and Prosthetic Narratives: William Dodd, Writing at the Industrial Join
Tamara Ketabgian
Chapter 3 “A fiery hand gripped my vitals”: Admiral Nelson, Amputation, and Heroic Masculinity in Jane Eyre
Karen Bourrier
Part II Hands, Plot, and Character
Chapter 4 Hands and the Will in The Woman in White
Pamela K. Gilbert
Chapter 5
Hands at a Séance: Manual Evidence in Victorian Spiritualism and the Ghost Story
Aviva Briefel
Chapter 6 Hands and Minds in The Moonstone
Sue Zemka
Chapter 7 The Dead Hand: George Eliot and the Burdens of Inheritance
James Eli Adams
Chapter 8 Computation and the Gendering of Gestures
Jonathan Cheng
Part III Framing and Staging Hands
Chapter 9 The Photographer’s Hand
Kate Flint
Chapter 10 Staged Hands in Bleak House
Julianne Smith
Part IV Manual Exceptionalism in Later Victorian Literature and Culture
Chapter 11 Handling Private Dramas of Class and Gender in Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children
Deborah Denenholz Morse
Chapter 12 Reading by Hand: Oscar Wilde and the Body in the Archive
Daniel A. Novak
Chapter 13 Hands in Hardy and James
J. Hillis Miller
Part V Afterword
The Well Spoken Hand
Herbert F. Tucker
List of Contributors
Index