The self as surface. Sense ; Expression -- Permeability. Out; In -- Alienated and alienating. Flayed; Flaying -- Inscriptions. Marked; Tattoo
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"A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, Victorian Skin traces a history of the body's surface in the nineteenth century. It offers an expository study of skin in medical, philosophical, and literary writing in the long nineteenth century, and it also explores how literary realism is imbricated in changing beliefs about the signifying and perceptive function of the body's surface"--
JSTOR
22573/ctv8j3r5
Victorian skin.
9781501731594
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Skin in literature.
Skin-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.