The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities

by Patricia Pulham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399504592
• ISBN13: 9781399504591
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"