Victorians undone : tales of the flesh in the age of decorum
Title:
Victorians undone : tales of the flesh in the age of decorum
Author:
Hughes, Kathryn, 1959- author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
©2017
Physical Description:
xviii, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Summary:
"A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians ... brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives"--Publisher's description.
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017"--Title page verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : Parts and holes -- Lady Flora's belly -- Charles Darwin's beard -- George Eliot's hand -- Fanny Cornforth's mouth -- Sweet Fanny Adams.
ISBN:
9781421425702
Format :
Book
