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- W2551900598 abstract "Dickens’s final completed novel is a treasure trove of curious bodily bits, from Bella Wilfer’s ‘favourite ankle’ to Bradley Headstone’s bursting nose to Sloppy’s ‘giant’s’ mouth to Jenny Wren’s ‘queer legs’. 2 The most extensive musing on the curiously assembled nature of the body, however, comes from Mr. Venus, the novel’s eccentric taxidermist and ‘articulator of human bones’. Mr. Venus’s shop contains hundreds of ghoulish specimens, described matter-of-factly as ‘human warious’, and Venus takes great pride in his aptitude for sorting and categorizing these fragments, performing the demands of his job with a dexterity and rapidity that he labels ‘charming’. Whilst Silas Wegg is unnerved by the casual manner in which Venus points out the ‘dried cuticle’ or ‘articulated English baby’ that litter the shelves around him, Venus’s unemotional response to his ‘human warious’ is symptomatic of a wider cultural turn during this period of the nineteenth century towards understanding the particularities of the human body. Many critics have pointed out the echoes of Darwin’s Origin of Species within Dickens’s novel, and, as Howard Fulweiler has recently suggested, Venus himself may well be a portrait of Richard Owen, a prominent anatomist of the period who was instrumental in establishing the Natural History Museum. 3" @default.
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- W2551900598 title "Articulating Victorian Body Parts: The Conference" @default.
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