Gender politics and Victorian literary representation of the body: a distant reading of the body in Charles Dickens’s works

Abstract This paper analyses the nineteenth-century discourse around the human body. It examines two corpora: Charles Dickens’s works and contemporary writings. In both contexts, the body is observed through a detailed focus on its individual parts. This study employs a corpus-driven approach to inv...

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Main Authors: Houliang Chen, Qianwen Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2024-06-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03366-x