Taboo
Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-century France
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-367-60169-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book mobilizes the unexplored interpretative and critical potential of the taboo as a way of reading accounts of the body in nineteenth-century French fiction. It shows that the taboo bodies hidden in realist texts are amongst their most articulate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-60169-0 (9780367601690)
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07/2017
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07/2017
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06/2013
1st Edition
Maney Publishing
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Person
Hannah Thompson
Content
Introduction the Taboo in Theory Part I: The Body 1. Secrets and Suggestions: The Silenced Sexuality of Sand and Rachilde 2. Diagnosing the Female Body: Illness and the Imaginary in Zola's Lourdes 3. War and the Wounded Body: The Male, the Manly, and the Masculine in Tales of the Franco-Prussian War Part II: The Reader 4. Savage Poetry: Cruelty, Torture, and Sadism 5. Metaphors of the Monstrous: The Case of Victor Hugo 6. The Truth Will Out: National and Personal Trauma in Zola's Verite 7. Conclusion: A Corporeal Secret