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Watching Hannah: Sex, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England (Picturing History)

By Barry Reay

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2002
ISBN
1861891199, 9781861891198
LCC
PR5101.M39 Z74 2002
Open Library ID
OL17046441M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13987370 bytes)
Series
Picturing History
Pages
202\202
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Based on a vast untapped archive of documents, photographs and sketches, Watching Hannah describes and sets into context the obsession of Arthur Munby, a Victorian gentleman and civil servant, with the bodies and behaviours of working women, most especially his maidservant (later his wife) Hannah Cullwick. Munby's fixations with hands, dirtiness, blackness and various kinds of physical deformity are analyzed in relation to changing definitions of gender, sexual identity and class in 19th- and 20th-century England.Barry Reay is Professor of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His books include Microhistories: Demography, Society, and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930 (1996); Popular Cultures in England, 15501750 (1998); and Sexualities in History: A Reader (2001).

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