The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies

The Flesh Made Word by Helena Michie is a scholarly study of Victorian literature and visual culture, focusing on female figures and women’s bodies. This digital PDF edition offers instant download after purchase.

Drawing on fiction, painting, and social debate, Michie examines how Victorian culture represented women through appetite, work, vocation, and physical description.

Book Overview

Published by Oxford University Press, The Flesh Made Word explores the relationship between women’s bodies and language in nineteenth-century English literature. The book is organized around key figures such as the anorexic lady, the public woman, the prostitute, and the heroine as described in Victorian novels.

Michie also considers Victorian painting and Pre-Raphaelite art, linking literary and visual representations. The final chapter engages feminist theory and the problem of representing the body.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• An analysis of ladylike anorexia and its connection to hunger, sexuality, and etiquette.
• A discussion of women’s entry into public life through work.
• A study of vocation and prostitution as linked cultural categories.
• An examination of paradoxes in Victorian heroine description.
• A consideration of feminist theory and the re-membering of the body.

Why This Book Matters

The Flesh Made Word is an important contribution to Victorian studies, feminist literary criticism, and the cultural history of the body. It connects literary texts to visual art and social norms, offering readers a framework for understanding how women’s bodies were imagined and disciplined in the nineteenth century.

Book Details

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The PDF works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktop readers, mobile devices, and most compatible reading applications.

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