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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454635403321

Autore

Michie Helena

Titolo

The Flesh Made Word [[electronic resource] ] : Female Figures and Women's Bodies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990

ISBN

1-280-52426-X

0-19-802115-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

820.9352042

Soggetti

Body, Human, in literature

English literature

Feminism and literature

Human body in literature

Painting, Victorian

Women in art

Women in literature

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.