The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's BodiesExamining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography. |
Contents
Constructing the Frame | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 30 |
CHAPTER III | 59 |
CHAPTER IV | 79 |
CHAPTER V | 124 |
NOTES | 151 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 167 |
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