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Victorian skin : surface, self, history / Pamela K. Gilbert.
LIBRA PR468.S54 G55 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Pamela K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Skin in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Skin--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Skin.
- Skin--Social aspects.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The self as surface
- Permeability : out and in
- Alienated and alienating
- Inscriptions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-416) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gilbert, Pamela K., author. Victorian skin
- ISBN:
- 9781501731594
- 1501731599
- OCLC:
- 1033636312
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