Hill, Kate (2012) Collecting and the body in late Victorian and Edwardian museums. In: Bodies and things in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230369382

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Abstract

This chapter examines the collection and display of bodies, body parts and bodily objects by museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that such objects presented a problem because of their blurring of the boundaries between subject and object, science and emotion. Museums attempted to police such boundaries in the way they treated and displayed the objects, but as the numbers and popularity of such objects grew, museums instead became a site where dichotomies were resisted.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This chapter examines the collection and display of bodies, body parts and bodily objects by museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that such objects presented a problem because of their blurring of the boundaries between subject and object, science and emotion. Museums attempted to police such boundaries in the way they treated and displayed the objects, but as the numbers and popularity of such objects grew, museums instead became a site where dichotomies were resisted.
Keywords:	history of museums, history of collecting, bodies, refchapter, ref30
Subjects:	V Historical and Philosophical studies > V390 History by Topic not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Kate Hill
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2012 21:23
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2013 09:08
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/6809

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