The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies

by Helena Michie

Book Overview

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 of women in such activities as eating and working, she then turns to the physical descriptions of Victorian heroines, focusing on those parts of their bodies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041070
• ISBN13: 9780195041071
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"