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10 produkter
The Flesh Made Word
Female Figures and Women's Bodies
Häftad, 1990
804 kr
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Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing `safe' bodily parts - like hands - and `safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, …
Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 1992
1145 kr
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Helena Michie takes the notion of `otherness' as it has traditionally been used by Simone de Beauvoir and other feminists to designate the space between men and women, and transcribes it instead to the places between and among women. Its goal is to describe women's relations to each other and how …
Sororophobia
Differences among Women in Literature and Culture
E-bok, 1992
752 kr
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This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth-century lesbian communities, and contemporary country …
Flesh Made Word
Female Figures and Women's Bodies
E-bok, 1987
443 kr
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Helena Michie''s provocative new work looks at how women''s bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres--from painting, poems, and novels, to etiquette, books, sex manuals, and pornography. After identifying a series of codes and taboos that govern the depiction …
Victorian Honeymoons
Journeys to the Conjugal
Häftad, 2009
699 kr
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While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the …
Victorian Honeymoons
Journeys to the Conjugal
Inbunden, 2006
1628 kr
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While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the …
Love Among the Archives
Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor
Av Helena Michie, Robyn Warhol
Inbunden, 2015
1683 kr
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Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London’s National Portrait Gallery.Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’ attempts to track …
Love Among the Archives
Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor
Av Helena Michie, Robyn Warhol
Häftad, 2015
392 kr
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Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London’s National Portrait Gallery.Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’ attempts to track …
Confinements
Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 1997
313 kr
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When a woman in the United States becomes pregnant or tries to become pregnant, she enters a world of information, technology, and expertise. Suddenly her body becomes public in a new way: medicine, law, and popular culture all offer her sometimes contradictory "expert" advice. Confinements …
Nineteenth-Century Geographies
The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century
Av Ronald R. Thomas, Helena Michie
Häftad, 2002
410 kr
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The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented discovery and exploration throughout the globe, a period when the “blank spaces” of the earth were systematically investigated, occupied, and exploited by the major imperial powers of Western Europe and the United States. The lived experience of …
