The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature : : Encrypted Sexualities /

The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature : : Encrypted Sexualities / / Patricia Pulham.

Explores Victorian writers’ erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough readings of sculpture in Victorian texts and contextsExamines a wide range of works by well-known and lesser-known writers of the period (e.g. Thomas Har...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Pulham, Patricia,
MitwirkendeR:
Wolfreys, Julian,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations 14 black and white & 4 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Nineteenth-Century Pygmalions: The Sexual Politics of Tactility
  • 2. Artworks in Marble: Capturing Venus in Durable Form
  • 3. ‘Of marble men and maidens’: Sculptural Transformations
  • 4. Statuephilia and the Love of the Impossible
  • 5. Between Death and Sleep: Libidinal Entombments
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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