Victorian Skin : : Surface, Self, History /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Gilbert, Pamela K.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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