The flesh made word : female figures and women's bodies / Helena Michie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michie, Helena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women in literature.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Introduction: Constructing the Frame; CHAPTER I: Ladylike Anorexia: Hunger, Sexuality, and Etiquette; CHAPTER II: Becoming Public Women: Women and Work; CHAPTER III: Calling and Falling: Vocation and Prostitution; CHAPTER IV: Body, Figure, Embodiment: The Paradoxes of Heroine Description; CHAPTER V: Re-membering the Body: Feminist Theory and Representation; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52426-X

0-19-802115-1

OCLC:

476013342