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Human Body - in literature

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Works from the collections

50 works

    • Books

    Ventriloquized bodies : narratives of hysteria in nineteenth-century France / Janet Beizer.

    | Janet L. Beizer | Date: 1994
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    Body & text in the eighteenth century : edited by Veronica Kelly and Dorothea von Mücke.

    | Date: 1994
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    Virginal sexuality and textuality in Victorian literature / edited by Lloyd Davis.

    | Date: [1993]
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    Embodying Enlightenment : knowing the body in eighteenth-century Spanish literature and culture / Rebecca Haidt.

    | Rebecca Haidt | Date: 1998
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    Body work : objects of desire in modern narrative / Peter Brooks.

    | Peter Brooks | Date: 1993
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Related topics

History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
United States
History, 18th Century
Sex in literature
Literature - English
History, 20th Century
Great Britain
Women in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)

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