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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature : Encrypted Sexualities / Patricia Pulham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 14 B/W illustrations 4 colour illustrations 14 black and white & 4 colour illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748693429
  • 9780748693436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/35709034 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Nineteenth-Century Pygmalions: The Sexual Politics of Tactility -- 2. Artworks in Marble: Capturing Venus in Durable Form -- 3. ‘Of marble men and maidens’: Sculptural Transformations -- 4. Statuephilia and the Love of the Impossible -- 5. Between Death and Sleep: Libidinal Entombments -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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. 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 writings This book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. 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 where statues may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision to permit the recovery of forbidden love.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Nineteenth-Century Pygmalions: The Sexual Politics of Tactility -- 2. Artworks in Marble: Capturing Venus in Durable Form -- 3. ‘Of marble men and maidens’: Sculptural Transformations -- 4. Statuephilia and the Love of the Impossible -- 5. Between Death and Sleep: Libidinal Entombments -- Bibliography -- Index

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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. 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 writings This book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. 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 where statues may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision to permit the recovery of forbidden love.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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