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Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-05 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity
Language: en
Pages: 441
Pages: 441
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02 - Publisher: JHU Press
In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the ninetee
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cambria Press
"The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in Engl
Language: en
Pages: 263
Pages: 263
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-15 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victo
Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situ
