Victorian skin : surface, self, history. / Pamela K Gilbert,

By: Gilbert, Pamela KContributor(s): Pamela K. GilbertMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2.Publication details: , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2019Description: xi, 434 pages. : 24cmISBN: 9781501731594Subject(s): History | Realism in literature | Skin Social aspects | English literatureDDC classification: 820.935 GIL Summary: "A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface"
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"A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface"

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