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Victorians Undone - Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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Victorians Undone - Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in
a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN
OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR * A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian
body from one of our best historians. Why did the great
philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her
right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow
that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his
contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen
Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the
crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?
What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who
painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever
seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people
snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams
disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a
popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop,
appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a
thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of
social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious
observance - its language is one of admiring glances, cruel
sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening,
deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the
Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived
their lives.
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