Taboo
Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-century France
1st Edition
Published on 13. June 2013
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-907975-55-4 (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
Leeds
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907975-55-4 (9781907975554)
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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