The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's BodiesOxford University Press, Incorporated, 1990 - 179 страница Examining 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. |
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