02453nam 2200577Ia 450 991096332320332120200520144314.01-280-52426-X0-19-802115-1(CKB)1000000000702436(EBL)272929(OCoLC)476013342(SSID)ssj0000360152(PQKBManifestationID)12152665(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000360152(PQKBWorkID)10326399(PQKB)11510325(OCoLC)20940402(FINmELB)ELB168681(MiAaPQ)EBC272929(EXLCZ)99100000000070243619901122d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe flesh made word female figures and women's bodies /Helena Michie1st ed.New York ;Oxford Oxford University Press19891 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504107-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; WExamining 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.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismWomen in literatureHuman body in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Human body in literature.820.9352042Michie Helena688941MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963323203321The flesh made word4447079UNINA