The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature - Encrypted Sexualities
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The University of Surrey
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 9024678_3
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780748693429
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial monograph, researched over several years, offers an original and sustained analysis of the role played by figural sculpture in nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature. It includes archival research and harnesses a complex set of psychoanalytic, phenomenological, art-historical and literary-critical approaches to develop its thesis. Extending existing criticism on sculpture and homoeroticism, it contends that Victorian literary statues become ‘safe’ spaces for a much wider range of forbidden desires. Encrypted in statuary, such desires surface for circulation and interpretation through the concept of a ‘magic touch’, expressed at the intersections between visual, tactile and readerly encounters with the sculptural body.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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