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Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture

Author : Kimberly Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555669
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture written by Kimberly Rhodes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain, the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were typically regulated and interpreted by public and private institutions, while emblematic fictional female figures like Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood. Rhodes examines the widely disseminated representations of Ophelia, from works by visual artists and writers, to interpretations of her character in contemporary productions of Hamlet, revealing her as a nexus of the struggle for the female body's subjugation. By considering a broad range of materials, including works by Anna Lea Merritt, Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais, and paying special attention to images women produced, Rhodes illuminates Ophelia as a figure whose importance crossed class and national boundaries. Her analysis yields fascinating insights into 'high' and mass culture and enables transnational comparisons that reveal the compelling associations among Ophelia, gender roles, body image and national identity.

Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture

Author : Kimberly Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555677
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture written by Kimberly Rhodes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain, the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were typically regulated and interpreted by public and private institutions, while emblematic fictional female figures like Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood. Rhodes examines the widely disseminated representations of Ophelia, from works by visual artists and writers, to interpretations of her character in contemporary productions of Hamlet, revealing her as a nexus of the struggle for the female body's subjugation. By considering a broad range of materials, including works by Anna Lea Merritt, Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais, and paying special attention to images women produced, Rhodes illuminates Ophelia as a figure whose importance crossed class and national boundaries. Her analysis yields fascinating insights into 'high' and mass culture and enables transnational comparisons that reveal the compelling associations among Ophelia, gender roles, body image and national identity.

Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture

Author : Galia Ofek
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754661610
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Galia Ofek and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a wide range of historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical works, Galia Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her innovative study reveals the Victorians' well-developed awareness of fetishism and their cognizance of hair's symbolic resonance and commercial value.

Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture

Author : Maura Coughlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429602391
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture by : Maura Coughlin

Download or read book Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture written by Maura Coughlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses, such as new materialism, ecofeminism, critical animal studies, food studies, object-oriented ontology and affect theory. This timely volume looks back at the early decades of the Anthropocene to query the agency of visual culture to critique, create and maintain more resilient and biologically diverse local and global ecologies.

The Afterlife of Ophelia

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137016469
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Afterlife of Ophelia written by Deanne Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies.

Victorian Visual Culture

Author : Renate Brosch
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825355142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Visual Culture written by Renate Brosch and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to the diverse field of visual culture in the 19th century. It surveys major changes in the field taking into account photography, theatrical practice, changing land- and cityscapes as well as new technologies for entertainment and information. The inventions and discoveries of the period revolutionized methods of cultural production, provoked new intentions in representation and radically altered the experience of the visual in art as well as everyday life. Hence people had to adapt to new perceptions and their habitual ways of seeing were challenged. At the same time they carved out new positions for themselves vis a vis the visual, defining new identities as spectators and observers. In addition to the introductory overview, the volume offers a collection of articles which concentrate on less well-known aspects of Victorian visual culture, seeking to contribute an explanation in the context of the larger political, thus seeking to disclose new vantage points for explanations in the of the larger political, ideological and psychological context of the era.

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487939
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance written by Sally Barnden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

Author : Michael Gamer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155063
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by : Michael Gamer

Download or read book A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire written by Michael Gamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Icons of Beauty [2 volumes]

Author : Lindsay J. Bosch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313081565
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Icons of Beauty [2 volumes] written by Lindsay J. Bosch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty have changed but the desire to portray beauty, to praise beauty, and to possess beauty has never diminished. Icons of Beauty offers an enthralling overview of the most revered icons of female beauty in world art from pre-history to the present. From images of Eve to Cindy Sherman's self-portraits, from Cleopatra to Madonna, from ancient goddesses to modern celebrities, this interdisciplinary set offers fresh insight as to how we can use perceptions of beauty to learn about world cultures, both past and present. Each chapter looks at an individual work of art to pose a question about the power of beauty. What makes beauty modern? What is the influence of celebrities? How do women portray their own beauty in a different manner than men? In-depth profiles of the icons reveal how specific ideas about beauty were developed and expressed, offering a full analysis of their history, cultural significance, and lasting influence. In addition to renowned works of art, Icons of Beauty also looks at icons in literature, film, politics, and contemporary entertainment. Interdisciplinary and multicultural in its approach, chapters inside this set also feature sidebars on provocative topics and issues, such as foot binding and body adornment; myths and practices; opinions and interpretations; and even related films, songs, and even comic book characters. Generously illustrated, this rich set encompasses history, politics, society, women's studies, and art history, making it an indispensable resource for high school and college students as well as general readers.

Inhabited by Stories

Author : Nancy A. Barta-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443843660
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Inhabited by Stories written by Nancy A. Barta-Smith and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertextuality has signaled change, appropriation, adaptation, and derivation. It has focused readers on irresolvable questions of influence and origination, progressive or regressive movement across continents, periods, and media. Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold takes a different approach. What would a model of literary study look like that steps out of time’s river and embraces not only the presence and proximity of the world to the senses, but also of the past and the future to the present here and now? When stories inhabit us, imagination and memory extend our ability to see and feel. Phenomenological experience is lived, not just thought. Such a perspective suggests that the past and future inhabit the present, increase the depth of sensory perception itself, and enrich the range of our affective and ethical responses. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, this perspective offers an alternative to an idea of intertextuality as simply following lines of influence and appropriation. It focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories. Ironically, for literary theorists and critics, perhaps the highest form of both praise and critique is a tale retold, since such retellings attest to literature’s instructive power and its perennial regeneration.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe

Author : Ullrich Kockel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119111625
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe written by Ullrich Kockel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to theAnthropologyof Europe BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe “The volume also deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries as well as the larger public library.” Reference Reviews “Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.” Choice “This important collection challenges all anthropologists to re-examine the importance of European perspectives on the most provocative debates of our time. It transcends regional interests to highlight the complex intellectual landscape of our field.” Tracey Heatherington, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee “This significant volume critically interrogates assumptions about Europe as an idea and a place for research. It provides fresh perspectives on the past and future of anthropological studies of Europe.” Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY at Buffalo, President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Utilizing diverse approaches to the anthropological study of Europe, Kockel, Nic Craith, and Frykman provide a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary practices. Investigating the subject both geographically and thematically, the companion covers key topics such as location, heritage, experience, and cultural practices. Written by leading international scholars in the field, the volume constitutes the first authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students of anthropology and European studies.

A Victorian Muse

Author : Julia Straub
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441180680
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book A Victorian Muse written by Julia Straub and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This study looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contexts. Focusing on literary representations and selected examples from the visual arts, this book examines works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Walter Pater as well as by John Ruskin, Maria Rossetti and Arthur Henry Hallam. Julia Straub's analysis shows how the various representations of Beatrice in literature and in the visual arts reflect in meaningful ways some of the central social and aesthetic concerns of the Victorian period, most importantly its discourse on gender. This study offers fascinating insights into the Victorian reception of Dante by exploring the powerful appeal of his muse.

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518245
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century written by Gail Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays.

Neo-Victorian Biofiction

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434356
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Biofiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France

Author : Estelle Paranque
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030223442
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France written by Estelle Paranque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.

Drawing on the Victorians

Author : Anna Maria Jones
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445871
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Drawing on the Victorians written by Anna Maria Jones and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians sets out to explore the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored. In this collection, scholars from literary studies, cultural studies, and art history consider contemporary works—Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moto Naoko’s Lady Victorian, and Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, among others—alongside their antecedents, from Punch’s 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but converses with the present. Contributors: Christine Ferguson, Kate Flint, Anna Maria Jones, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Peter W. Sinnema, Jessica Straley

Playing Sick

Author : Meredith Conti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351787705
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Playing Sick written by Meredith Conti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on the period’s British and American stages, where theatrical embodiments of illness were indisputable staples of actors’ repertoires. Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine reconstructs how actors embodied three of the era’s most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased. Conti’s case studies, which range from Eleonora Duse’s portrayal of the consumptive courtesan Marguerite Gautier to Henry Irving’s performance of senile dementia in King Lear, help to illuminate the interdependence of medical science and theatre in constructing nineteenth-century illness narratives. Through reconstructing these performances, Conti isolates from the period’s acting practices a lexicon of embodied illness: a flexible set of physical and vocal techniques that performers employed to theatricalize the sick body. In an age when medical science encouraged a gradual decentering of the patient from their own diagnosis and treatment, late nineteenth-century performances of illness symbolically restored the sick to positions of visibility and consequence.