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Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture - 9780754661610

Un libro in lingua di Galia Ofek edito da Ashgate Pub Co, 2009

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The works of Victorian authors and artists, including Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and authors including Dickens and Gaskell, display their era's awareness of women's hair, embuing it with symbolism that becomes fetish, according to Ofek (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) in this excellent study. Employing Freudian theory, Mary Douglas's theory of the body politic, and Barthes semiotics, Ofek mines the rich field of Victorian imagery to reveal how artists and authors consciously portrayed hair and its decoration to lay stress on the meanings of female identity, including sexuality, domestic virtue, and class distinctions. Even readers whose interests lay outside the Victorian era will find the lengthy initial chapter on fetishism and other theories applying to human hair of interest. The volume is well illustrated with b&w and color plates. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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