The hands of colonized subjects - South Asian craftsmen, Egyptian mummies, harem women, and Congolese children - were at the crux of Victorian discussions of th

A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.

Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws o

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions

The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.