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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature - Encrypted Sexualities (Hardcover)
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature - Encrypted Sexualities (Hardcover)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
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Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in statues Theorises
the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and prose
Offers thorough readings of sculpture in Victorian texts and
contexts Examines 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, transgressive desires that 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 sculptures may be kissed or caressed using metaphors
of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision and
permit the recovery of forbidden love.
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