Disease, Desire, And The Body In Victorian Women's Popular Novels
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| Originally published | November 27, 1997 |
| Authors | Pamela K. Gilbert |
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| ID | 2071795 |
About Disease, Desire, And The Body In Victorian Women's Popular Novels
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and disease offer convincing evidence that reading was metaphorically allied with eating, contagion and sex. . . .
