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Hardcover The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies Book

ISBN: 0195041070

ISBN13: 9780195041071

The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies

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Helena Michie's provocative new work looks at how women's bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres--from painting, poems, and novels, to etiquette, books, sex manuals, and pornography. After identifying a series of codes and taboos that govern the depiction of women in such activities as eating and working, she then turns to the physical descriptions of Victorian heroines, focusing on those parts of their bodies...

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