How do acts of caring for the sick or grieving for the dead change the way we move through our living rooms and bedrooms Why do elderly homeowners struggle to remain in messy junkfilled houses Why are we so attached to our pets even when they damage and soil our living spaces In Home Bodies Tactile Experience in Domestic Space James Krasner offers an interdisciplinary humanistic investigation of the sense of touch in our experience of domestic space and identity. Accessing the work of gerontologists neurologists veterinarians psychologists social geographers and tactual perception theorists to lay the groundwork for his experiential claims he also ranges broadly through literary and cultural criticism dealing with the body habit and material culture. ampampnbsp By demonstrating crucial links between domestic experience and tactile perception Home Bodies investigates questions of identity space and the body. Krasner analyzes representations of tactile experience from a range of canonical literary works and authors including the Bible Sophocles Marilynne Robinson Charles Dickens John Steinbeck and Sylvia Plath as well as a series of popular contemporary texts. This work will contribute to discussions of embodiment space and domesticity by literary and cultural critics scholars in the medical humanities and interdisciplinary thinkers from multiple fields. ampampnbsp ampampnbsp