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This study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, it argues, had an awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were aware of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce.Ofek , Galia is the author of 'Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture', published 2009 under ISBN 9780754661610 and ISBN 075466161X.
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