Watching Hannah : Sex, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England
Barry. Reay
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Reaktion Books, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (202 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; 1 Watching Hannah; 2 Harriet's Nose: Horror, Bodily De-formation and Femininity; 3 Venus in Dirt: Servitude and Mastery; 4 Disordering Bodies: Gender Hybridity; 5 Dorothy's Hands: Feminizing Men; 6 Sexuating Arthur; Postscript; References; Acknowledgements; Index. - Arthur Munby (1828-1910) was a Victorian gentleman from a respected family of Yorkshire lawyers. He left behind diaries that record his life-long obsession with working-class Victorian women, whom he interviewed, photographed and wrote about. This obsession led to his relationship with, and eventual secret marriage to, his maidservant Hannah Cullwick.Working women fascinated Munby because they disrupted his Victorian ideal of femininity: their bodies were altered by physical exertion and dirt, and they were also often deformed by disease. Drawing not only on the diaries but also on a vast, unt
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| ISBN | 1861891199
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