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Victorians Undone : Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum /

Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century in Victorian England as they encounter the world not through their imaginations or intellects but through their bodies. Or rather, through their body parts. Lady Flora Hastings is an unmarried lady-in-waiting at young Queen Victoria's...

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Autor principal: Hughes, Kathryn, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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