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Item Details
Title:
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VICTORIANS UNDONE
TALES OF THE FLESH IN THE AGE OF DECORUM |
By: |
Kathryn Hughes, Jenny Funnel |
Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
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£14.49 |
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ISBN 10: |
000818187X |
ISBN 13: |
9780008181871 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
26 January, 2017 |
Edition: |
Unabridged edition |
Description: |
`Intriguing, gleefully contentious and - appropriately enough - fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' John Preston, Daily MailA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. |
Synopsis: |
`Intriguing, gleefully contentious and - appropriately enough - fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' John Preston, Daily MailA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger?How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins?Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance - its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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