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Victorian Skin : Surface, Self, History by Pamela K. Gilbert; is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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In Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses about skin to trace the development of a broader discussion of what it meant to be human in the nineteenth century. Where is subjectivity located? How do we communicate with and understand each other's feelings? How does our surface, which contains us and presents us to others, function and what does it signify? As Gilbert shows, for Victorians, the skin was a text to be read. Nineteenth-century

Who reads Victorian Skin : Surface, Self, History?

Author

Pamela K. Gilbert;

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501731600

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25