Rosen, Jeffrey.

Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy Subjects' : Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (335 pages)

Cover -- Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- 1 Saint-Pierre's exiles: myths of origins and national identity -- 2 Jowett's scriptures: the moral life and the state -- 3 Grote's Hellenism: Victorian Parnassus on the Isle of Wight -- 4 Byron's 'Beauties': national heroines and defenders of liberty -- 5 Overstone's 'Negromania': justness and justice at home and abroad -- 6 Tennyson's nationalism: epic and lyric in Idylls of the King -- 7 North's gardens: redemption and the return to origins -- Conclusion -- Index.

Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.

9781784997465


Cameron, Julia Margaret,-1815-1879.
Photography-Great Britain-History-19th century.
Symbolism in art.
Great Britain-History-19th century.


Electronic books.

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