C19 and the Haptics of Reading: From Touching Books to Binding Them in Human Skin
Gillian Silverman
University of Colorado, Denver
Gillian Silverman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado Denver. She is also the co-director of Feminism & Company: Art, Sex, Politics at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. She is the author of Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America (U Penn Press, 2012). She is currently at work on two book projects—one, a study of reading practices and their relation to the human sensorium; and the second, a book (co-written with Sarah Hagelin) about female antiheros in contemporary US television.
Abstract
Gillian Silverman’s presentation “C19 and the Haptics of Reading: From Touching Books to Binding Them in Human Skin” examines nineteenth-century readers who challenged proscriptions against touch in the context of... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Gillian Silverman (University of Colorado, Denver)
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Panel
Session
P92 » Haptic Feelings: Texts, Textures, Textiles (09:00 - Sunday, 25th March, Enchantment A)
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