{"product_id":"the-sculptural-body-in-victorian-literature","title":"The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores Victorian writers’ erotic investment in statues\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eTheorises the function of the sculptural body in Victorian poetry and prose\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eOffers thorough readings of sculpture in Victorian texts and contexts\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eExamines a wide range of works by well-known and lesser-known writers of the period (e.g. Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Olive Custance, Arthur O’Shaughnessy)\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eExtends the British focus to encompass nineteenth-century European and American writings \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture’s ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums, Pulham observes that while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations Victorian texts offer ‘safe’ spaces where sculptures may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision and permit the recovery of forbidden love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46580662862034,"sku":"9781399504591","price":38.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4e38567b-a858-4290-9f68-28764316eac1.jpg?v=1763632154","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/the-sculptural-body-in-victorian-literature","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}