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Human body in literature - History

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Works from the collections

8 works

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    Reading sex in the eighteenth century : bodies and gender in English erotic culture / Karen Harvey.

    | Karen Harvey | Date: 2004
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    Collecting the self : body and identity in strange tale collections of late imperial China / by Sing-Chen Lydia Chiang.

    | Chiang, Sing-chen Lydia | Date: [2005]
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    Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity / edited by Thorsten Fögen and Mireille M. Lee.

    | Date: [2009]
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    Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture / edited by Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg.

    | Date: 2002
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    Foreign bodies : medicine, gender and colonialism in nineteenth-century British culture / Narin Hassan.

    | Hassan, Narin, 1969- | Date: 2003
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