Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern

by Katherine Rowe

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804733856
• ISBN13: 9780804733854
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"