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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture) - Softcover

Pulham, Patricia

 
9781399504591: The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1399504592 ISBN 13: 9781399504591
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Explores Victorian writers’ erotic investment in statues
Theorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough readings of sculpture in Victorian texts and contextsExamines a wide range of works by well-known and lesser-known writers of the period (e.g. Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Olive Custance, Arthur O’Shaughnessy)Extends the British focus to encompass nineteenth-century European and American writings
This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture’s ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums, Pulham observes that while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations Victorian texts offer ‘safe’ spaces where sculptures may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision and permit the recovery of forbidden love.

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Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey and editor of the EUP journal, Victoriographies. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, culture and the visual arts, and she has published widely on a range of nineteenth-century authors. She joined the University of Surrey in 2017 where she is Director of Research in the School of Literature and Languages and teaches modules on the Victorian fin-de-siècle and neo-Victorian literature.

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Explores Victorian writers’ erotic investment in sculptureThis book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture’s ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums Pulham observes that, while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations, Victorian texts offer ‘safe’ spaces where statues may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision to permit the recovery of forbidden love.Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey and Editor of the Edinburgh University Press journal, Victoriographies.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399504592
ISBN 13 
9781399504591
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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