The Flesh Made Word Female Figures and Women's Bodies
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Publish date: 02/01/1990
Description:
Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Bronts, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing 'safe' bodily parts - like hands - and 'safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She reveals how these codes function as safe textual spaces for the entrance of the seemingly excluded female body, and showsthat in the stylized discourses of synecdoche, euphemism, physiognomy, and metaphor lie the possibilities of their own subversion.
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