Victorian legs by Clayton Tarr
Victorian legs is about the science (sometimes spurious) and sexuality (often frivolous) of legs during the Victorian period. The book argues that legs occupy a particularly vexed position in Victorian culture. Strong legs formed the foundation (or the columns) of the civilized subject, but the politics of who could show their legs remained gendered. For the most part, men exhibited and admired, while women concealed and demurred. This book not only joins and advances the lively critical discourse on the Victorian body, but also marks new paths to pursue. While legs made us human, they could also dehumanize.-
The Great Exhibition, 1851
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The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context
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Charlotte Bronte
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Invasions
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Speculative endeavors
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Legible bodies
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The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction
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Counterfactual Romanticism
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Richard Marsh, Popular Fiction and Literary Culture, 1890-1915
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930
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Spain in the Nineteenth Century
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The Emotions in Liberal Writing, C. 1790-C. 1920
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Marie Duval
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Pasts at play
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Spectral Dickens
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Women's writing for Punch magazine, 1868–1918
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Readers and mistresses
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts
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Creating character
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Engine of Modernity
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The Case of the Initial Letter
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Instead of Modernity
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Margaret Harkness
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Interventions
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Dante Beyond Influence
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The Victorian Aquarium
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Beyond the Antislavery Haven
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The nineteenth-century present
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Madrid on the Move
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Worlding the South
Clayton Carlyle Tarr is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526188953 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526188953 |
| Title | Victorian legs |
| Author | Clayton Tarr |
| Series | Interventions: Rethinking The Nineteenth Century |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2025-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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