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The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination

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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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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 examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.