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Emily Cock – 2012 University of Adelaide Winner

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.

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