Pamela Gilbert's guest appearances

Pamela Gilbert

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Stephen Craig

Benjamin Rush

Helen Macdonald

Gavin Francis

Lisa Smith

John Henderson

Matthew Smith

Thomas Dixon

Ambrose Parry

George III

Thomas Brown

Jennifer Evans

Mark Jackson

Alan Emery

Iain Chalmers

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The body brings together a number of vexing questions: it is ‘animal’ yet ‘human’; ‘natural’ yet the ultimate object of cultural inscription? The part of the body that most represents us to others is its surface: for Victorians, skin, especially of the face and hands, was an important medium through which to read character and selfhood, a membrane that both divided the inner and outer worlds and served as a medium for the projection and interpretation of interiority.In this talk, Pamela Gilbert discusses Charles Bell, Charles Darwin and Cesare Lombroso’s discussions of blushing and the emotions. She surveys examples from both literary and visual culture to show how Victorian perspectives on the skin aid our understanding of representations of the relation between selfhood, the material body and the emotions.Speaker: Professor Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida)

The body brings together a number of vexing questions: it is ‘animal’ yet ‘human’; ‘natural’ yet the ultimate object of cultural inscription? The part of the body that most represents us to others is its surface: for Victorians, skin, especially of the face and hands, was an important medium through which to read character and selfhood, a membrane that both divided the inner and outer worlds and served as a medium for the projection and interpretation of interiority.<br><br>In this talk, Pamela Gilbert discusses Charles Bell, Charles Darwin and Cesare Lombroso’s discussions of blushing and the emotions. She surveys examples from both literary and visual culture to show how Victorian perspectives on the skin aid our understanding of representations of the relation between selfhood, the material body and the emotions.<br><br>Speaker: Professor Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida)

Ep.9 - Victorian Skin