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Аннотация: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age
| Автор/составитель | Хьюз Кэтрин |
| Год выпуска | 2019 |
| ISBN | 9780007548385 |
| Производитель | 4th Estate |
| Издательство | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 414 |
| Переплет | Мягкая обложка |
| Размеры | 197x130x26 мм |
| Тип бумаги | газетная (30-52 г/м2) |
| Стандарт | 10 |
| Вес | 320 |
| Язык | английский |
A 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 - it's 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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Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age
- Производитель: HarperCollins Publishers
- Модель: MYSH4803972
- ISBN 9780007548385
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