Victorian skin : surface, self, history /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501731594 1501731599 |