- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Victorian skin (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Victorian skin (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- The self as surface -- Permeability : out and in -- Alienated and alienating -- Inscriptions.
- LCCN
- 2019004427
- OCLC
- ssj0002113295
- Author
Gilbert, Pamela K.
- Title
Victorian skin [electronic resource] : surface, self, history / Pamela K. Gilbert.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Gilbert, Pamela K., author. Victorian skin Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501731594 (DLC) 2018042966