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Author:

Gilbert, Pamela K., author.

Title:

Victorian skin : surface, self, history / Pamela K. Gilbert.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Skin in literature.
Realism in literature.
Skin--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature.
Realism in literature.
Skin in literature.
Skin--Social aspects.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-416) and index.

Contents:

Inscriptions. Permeability : out and in -- Alienated and alienating -- Inscriptions.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501731599
9781501731594

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1033636312

LCCN:

2018042966

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)