Hannah Thompson

Taboo

Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781907975554
• ISBN-10: 1907975551
• Artikelnr.: 35076029

Autorenporträt

Hannah Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

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 Vérité 7.
Conclusion: A Corporeal Secret