Victorians undone : tales of the flesh in the age of decorum / Kathryn Hughes.

Author: Hughes, Kathryn, 1959- author.

ImprintBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Imprint2018

Descriptionxviii, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Note:"First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017"--Title page verso.

Note:Introduction : Parts and holes -- Lady Flora's belly -- Charles Darwin's beard -- George Eliot's hand -- Fanny Cornforth's mouth -- Sweet Fanny Adams.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians ... brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives."--Publisher's description.

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