Phrenology and Representations of Physical Deviance in Victorian Fiction

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  • Tamara S Wagner Churchill College, Cambridge

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Wilkie Collins, Phenology, Physiology, Aesthetics, Victorian, Pseudo-science,

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Phrenology and Representations of Physical Deviance in Victorian Fiction. (2002). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 5. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/20