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English
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Description
Dead Hands traces the fascinating career of a curious imaginative device: the wandering, disembodied, or ghostly hand. Dexterously threading historical, theoretical, and formalist questions, the author situates this familiar gothic convention in its rich literary and intellectual contexts, from early modern English drama through American fiction.
"A series of richly historicized readings which highlight multiplicity, complexity, and ironic self-questioning rather than adherence to a uniform and culturally determined version of the self."
"[Rowe] offers. . . . theoretical eclecticism, meticulous research, and careful attention to texts to yield original and nuanced readings of agency in process."
Katherine Rowe is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.
"A series of richly historicized readings which highlight multiplicity, complexity, and ironic self-questioning rather than adherence to a uniform and culturally determined version of the self."
"[Rowe] offers. . . . theoretical eclecticism, meticulous research, and careful attention to texts to yield original and nuanced readings of agency in process."
Katherine Rowe is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.