Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Legible Bodies: Dress, Desire and the Female Self in Victorian Literature and Culture, (Hardcover)
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| Management number | 240615822 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | $52.00 | Model Number | 240615822 | ||
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Legible bodies examines the representation of dress, appearance and the female body in Victorian literature and culture, showing how clothing becomes a medium through which sexuality, desire and social critique are articulated. Bringing together novels by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon with the rich visual and textual archive of women's magazines, the study demonstrates how fashion plates, patterns and domestic advice generated new ways of imagining female selfhood. By shifting attention to material details such as mirrors, hair and dressing spaces, it reveals how realist fiction used sartorial surfaces to explore the tensions between visibility, privacy and interiority. The book reframes dress not as ornament but as a structuring principle of narrative form, offering new insights into Victorian subjectivity, gendered embodiment and the cultural politics of appearance.
- Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Legible Bodies: Dress, Desire and the Female Self in Victorian Literature and Culture, (Hardcover)
- Author: Tara Puri
- ISBN: 9781526130082
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2027-01-19
- Page Count: 320
| Book format | Hardcover |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | January, 2027 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Subgenre | Modern |
| Series title | Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Case Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.43 x 6.00 x 8.50 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.25 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Literary Criticism |
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