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Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy Subjects' : Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784997465
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy Subjects'DDC classification:
  • 770.92
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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