"Instead of offering merely an itemized listing and a categorization of the major themes and motifs of representative works that focus on gestures and palpability, the author selectively examines a remarkable variety of works by artists, writers, dramatists, theorists, actors, and filmmakers to advance an alternative conceptual framework for formulating a philology of the hand. Eight sweeping chapters examine profuse examples of the avant-gardes use of the hand in relationship to speech, writing, theater, labor, and tactile text experiments. (...) Highly recommended." K. Rosneck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, CHOICE 60, no. 1 (September 2022)