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      Ghosts and Things

      Aviva Briefel

      "Ghosts and Things argues that Victorians turned to the dead to understand their own material culture. With the rise of spiritualism in Britain in the early 1850s, saeances intended to…

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      The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

      Aviva Briefel

      The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the…

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      The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

      Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College, Maine)

      The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central…

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      The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

      Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College, Maine)

      The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central…

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