Victorian skin : surface, self, history

Victorian skin surface, self, history

The self as surface -- Permeability : out and in -- Alienated and alienating -- Inscriptions

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1. Verfasser: Gilbert, Pamela K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First published
Schlagworte:
English literature / 19th century / History and criticism > Skin in literature > Realism in literature > Skin / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century > English literature > Skin / Social aspects > Literatur > Englisch > Haut > Subjektivität > Realismus > Great Britain
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Zusammenfassung:The self as surface -- Permeability : out and in -- Alienated and alienating -- Inscriptions
"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"--
Beschreibung:xi, 434 Seiten
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ISBN:9781501731594
978-1-5017-3159-4
1501731599
1-5017-3159-9