Emily Cock
3MT topic: Exchanging Flesh: Prostitution and Plastic Surgery in 17th century England
Discipline: English and Creative Writing
Faculty: Humanities and Social Sciences
Supervisors: Dr Heather Kerr and Dr Lucy Potter
Project summary:
My research investigates discourses of shame, sexuality, disease, and the commoditised body in seventeenth-century England. I achieve this through analysis of literary and non-literary sources relating to prostitution and plastic surgery (specifically, rhinoplasty) in this period.