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Victorian legs
Degeneracy, disability, decorum, desire
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Clayton Tarr
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
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Clayton Carlyle Tarr is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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eBook published on:
September 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781526188960
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eBook ISBN:
9781526188960
Keywords for this book
Athony Trollope; Charles Darwin; Charles Dickens; disabilities; gender studies; H. G. Wells; H. Rider Haggard; Herman Melville; Joseph Conrad; masculinity; novels by men; Robert Louis Stevenson; sexuality; Victorian art; Victorian legs; Victorian literature; Wilkie Collins
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
