Victorian Skin : Surface, Self, History /

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"A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gilbert, Pamela K. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Skin > Social aspects.
Skin in literature.
Realism in literature.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Skin > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (450 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501731600

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