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Informationen zum Autor Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey and editor of the EUP journal, Victoriographies. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, culture and the visual arts, and she has published widely on a range of nineteenth-century authors. She joined the University of Surrey in 2017 where she is Director of Research in the School of Literature and Languages and teaches modules on the Victorian fin-de-siècle and neo-Victorian literature. Klappentext Explores Victorian writers' erotic investment in sculptureThis book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture's ubiquity in Victorian galleries and museums Pulham observes that, while touch is prohibited in these cultural locations, Victorian texts offer 'safe' spaces where statues may be kissed or caressed using metaphors of tactility that work at the intersections of touch and vision to permit the recovery of forbidden love.Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey and Editor of the Edinburgh University Press journal, Victoriographies. Zusammenfassung This book argues that, in Victorian literature, transgressive desires that cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsSeries Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1: Nineteenth-Century Pygmalions: The Sexual Politics of Tactility2: Artworks in Marble: Capturing Venus in Durable Form3: 'Of marble men and maidens': Sculptural Transformations4: Statuephilia and the Love of the Impossible5: Between Death and Sleep: Libidinal EntombmentsWorks CitedIndex
