Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-century Literature and Art |
Contents
The old woman in new clothes? Sexual and body | 38 |
Sightless seers Decadence and representations | 62 |
Strange sensations The aberrant heroines of sensation | 98 |
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