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 Show More
by Simeon Koole.
Chicago, 352 pp., £28, July 2024,
“... 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 ... ”