Cohen Offers Keynote Address

At "The Victorian Tactile Imagination," held 19-20 July at Birkbeck College, London, William Cohen presented "Arborealities: The Tactile Ecology of Hardy’s WOODLANDERS."

This conference explored the various ways in which the Victorians conceptualised, represented, experienced, performed and problematized touch. What does touch signal in nineteenth-century art and literature, and how is it variously coded? How are hands and skin – tactile appendages and surfaces – imagined in the period? Complete details are available here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/the-victorian-tactile-imagination