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gender studies
H. G. Wells
H. Rider Haggard
Herman Melville
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masculinity
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Robert Louis Stevenson
sexuality
Victorian art
Victorian legs
Victorian literature
Wilkie Collins
Product details
- ISBN 9781526188953
- Weight: 553g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Victorian legs is about the science (sometimes spurious) and sexuality (often frivolous) of legs during the Victorian period. The book argues that legs occupy a particularly vexed position in Victorian culture. Strong legs formed the foundation (or the columns) of the civilized subject, but the politics of who could show their legs remained gendered. For the most part, men exhibited and admired, while women concealed and demurred. This book not only joins and advances the lively critical discourse on the Victorian body, but also marks new paths to pursue. While legs made us human, they could also dehumanize.
Clayton Carlyle Tarr is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
