THE SCULPTURAL BODY IN VICTORIAN LI
THE SCULPTURAL BODY IN VICTORIAN LI Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statuesTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and proseOffers thorough readings of…
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THE SCULPTURAL BODY IN VICTORIAN LI
Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statuesTheorises 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. Examining sculpture's ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums, Pulham observes that while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations Victorian texts offer 'safe' spaces Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Olive Custance, Arthur O'Shaughnessy)Extends the British focus to encompass nineteenth-century European and American writingsThis book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues.