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Tactile Dreams

Hannah Rose Woods, 8 May 2025

Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age 
by Simeon Koole.
Chicago, 352 pp., £28, July 2024, 978 0 226 83434 4
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... for signs of intent. In Intimate Subjects, his wide-ranging study of touch in modern Britain, Simeon Koole asks what we can learn from tactility itself: how did people decide who could touch whom – and when and where – and who was allowed to do the deciding? The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative ...

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