"Remarkable, rare, and full of elegant, ineluctable insights, Embodied is unfailingly smart. Readers across many disciplines will grasp how the Victorians advanced ahead of postmodern dicta as they forged materialist thought, even when they talked in terms of mind and soul. An exquisite study." —Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah
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"Victorian literature has seldom been more unsettlingly physical than it is in William Cohen’s hands. A tour de force of cultural phenomenology, Cohen’s Embodied shakes up our sense of the Victorians and so refreshes our senses themselves." —Joseph Litvak, Tufts University
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