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HOW THE VICTORIANS BECAME SEXY: THE FLESHLY SCHOOL OF PAINTING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Herbert Sussman
Herbert Sussman
Affiliation:
New School University
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EXPOSED: THE VICTORIAN NUDE, an extensive exhibition initiated by and first shown at Tate Britain in 2002, and The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber, a best-selling novel set in Victorian times and published in the same year, illustrate the interchange of the scholarly and the popular, more particularly how the recent rich work in Victorian sexuality, familiar to readers of this journal, informs and is transformed within blockbuster museum shows and popular fiction. Both exhibition and novel shed some light on the question of how the Victorians have become so sexy.

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REVIEW ESSAYS
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 322 - 328
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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