List of illustrations Preface Introduction: essentialism, agency and the exemplary hand 1. Divine complicity: God's handy worke and the anatomist's touch 2. Effectless use: dismembering and forgetting in Titus Andronicus 3. That curious engine: action at a distance in The Duchess of Malfi 4. The beast with five fingers: gothic labor relations in Victorian ghost stories 5. Involuntary confession: Pudd'nhead Wilson and law-enforcement mythology Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.

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Katherine Rowe is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.

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"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." - Modern Philology "[Rowe] offers... theoretical eclecticism, meticulous research, and careful attention to texts to yield original and nuanced readings of agency in process." - Modern Philology

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