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Autore |
Michie Helena |
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Titolo |
The flesh made word : female figures and women's bodies / / Helena Michie |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52426-X |
0-19-802115-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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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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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
Human body in literature |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography. |
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