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The flesh made word : female figures and women's bodies / Helena Michie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michie, Helena, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Women in art.
- Painting, Victorian.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179p. ) ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p167-174. _ Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1990.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772412-4
- 0-19-536299-3
- 1-4237-6422-6
- 1-60129-745-9
- OCLC:
- 1406781576
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