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UNINA9910454635403321 |
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Autore |
Michie Helena |
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Titolo |
The Flesh Made Word [[electronic resource] ] : Female Figures and Women's Bodies |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52426-X |
0-19-802115-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography. |
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