Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

by Kathryn Hughes

Book Overview

A fascinating account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from best-selling historian and critic Kathryn Hughes.

In Victorians Undone, renowned British historian Kathryn Hughes follows five iconic figures of the nineteenth century as they encounter the world not through their imaginations or intellects but through their bodies. Or rather, through their body parts. Using the vivid language of admiring glances, cruel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142570X
• ISBN13: 9781421425702
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher