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Helena Michie

Researcher at Rice University

Publications -  20
Citations -  408

Helena Michie is an academic researcher from Rice University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Literary criticism. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 19 publications receiving 396 citations.

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The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies

Helena Michie
TL;DR: The Flesh Made Word as discussed by the authors examines how women's bodies are portrayed in a variety of Victorian literary and non-literary genres, from painting, poems, and novels, to etiquette, books, sex manuals, and pornography.
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Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture

Helena Michie
TL;DR: In this paper, Michie takes the notion of 'otherness' as it has traditionally been used by Simone de Beauvoir and other feminists to designate the space between men and women, and transcribes it instead to the places between and among women.
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Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal

TL;DR: Michie et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit.
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Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century

TL;DR: A collection of seventeen essays from various disciplines organized into four areas of geographic concern, namely, time zones, commodities and exchange, orientations, and domestic frontiers, is presented in this article.