Victorian Skin : : Surface, Self, History / / Pamela K. Gilbert.
In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each othe...
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Gilbert, Pamela K., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Victorian Skin : Surface, Self, History / Pamela K. Gilbert. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (450 p.) : 13 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Self as Surface -- 1. Sense -- 2. Expression -- Part II. Permeability -- 3. Out -- 4. In -- Part III. Alienated and Alienating -- 5. Flayed -- 6. Flaying -- Part IV. Inscriptions -- 7. Marked -- 8. Tattoo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical perspectives had reconfigured the purpose and meaning of this organ as more than a wrapping and instead a membrane integral to the generation of the self. Victorian writers embraced this complex perspective on skin even as sanitary writings focused on the surface of the body as a dangerous point of contact between self and others. Drawing on novels and stories by Dickens, Collins, Hardy, and Wilde, among others, along with their French contemporaries and precursors among the eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers and German idealists, Gilbert examines the understandings and representations of skin in four categories: as a surface for the sensing and expressive self; as a permeable boundary; as an alienable substance; and as the site of inherent and inscribed properties. At the same time, Gilbert connects the ways in which Victorians "read" skin to the way in which Victorian readers (and subsequent literary critics) read works of literature and historical events (especially the French Revolution.) From blushing and flaying to scarring and tattooing, Victorian Skin tracks the fraught relationship between ourselves and our skin. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) English literature 19th century History and criticism. Realism in literature. Skin in literature. Skin Social aspects Great Britain History 19th century. Cultural Studies. History. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century . bisacsh Victorian writers, skin, literature works, memebrane. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110651980 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 English 9783110610369 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019 9783110606348 ZDB-23-DKU https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731600 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501731600 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501731600/original |
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