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Watching Hannah Sexuality. Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#220840
Titel	Watching Hannah Sexuality. Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
Auteur	Reay, Barry
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Reaktion Books
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	1861891199
ISBN13	9781861891198
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	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 osbession 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 alterd by physical exertion and dirt, and they were also often deformed by disease. Drawing not only on the diaries but also on vast, untapped archive of documents, photographs, poems and sketches, Watching Hannah is an account of a compulsive observer of working women and a fetishist of hard-working female hands. The text analyzes Mun... (Lees verder)by's obsessions in relation to changing definitions of gender, sexual identity and class to reveal wider male preoccupations with femininity, the body, deformity, masculinity and - most of all - sexuality, at a pivotol point in European history.
Pagina's	199
Conditie	Goed — Ex libris stamp on first free endpaper
Prijs	€ 12,00

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