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This chapter furthers the previous chapter’s exploration of dismemberment. It builds on Georges Braque’s notion of ‘manual space’ (Danchev, Georges Braque: A Life. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005, 88) and Katherine Rowe’s ‘unexpected clutch’ and ‘mortmain control’ (1999) to examine the idea of independent agency and shifting discourses of power in the Gothic. This crystallises in an exploration of the image of the disembodied hand in La Belle et la Bête (Cocteau, 1946) and Wuthering Heights (Wyler, 1939), which present memory as disruptive and a threat to the sanity of the characters. Central here is an understanding of the hand as a locus of sublime terror, exile, and uncanny absence that challenges the integrity of the subject by violently emphasising its constructed nature and, consequently, its easy disassembly and destruction.

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Tactile Travelling, Manual Space, and the Duality of Gothic Hands

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  • Joana Jacob Ramalho

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This chapter furthers the previous chapter’s exploration of dismemberment. It builds on Georges Braque’s notion of ‘manual space’ (Danchev, Georges Braque: A Life. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005, 88) and Katherine Rowe’s ‘unexpected clutch’ and ‘mortmain control’ (1999) to examine the idea of independent agency and shifting discourses of power in the Gothic. This crystallises in an exploration of the image of the disembodied hand in La Belle et la Bête (Cocteau, 1946) and Wuthering Heights (Wyler, 1939), which present memory as disruptive and a threat to the sanity of the characters. Central here is an understanding of the hand as a locus of sublime terror, exile, and uncanny absence that challenges the integrity of the subject by violently emphasising its constructed nature and, consequently, its easy disassembly and destruction.