Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' : photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosen, Jeff, 1957- (auteur.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Saint Pierre's exiles : myths of origins and national identity
  • Jowett's scriptures : the moral life and the state
  • Grote's Hellenism : Victorian Parnassus on the Isle of Wight
  • Byron's 'Beauties' : national heroines and defenders of liberty
  • Overstone's 'Negromania' : justness and justice at home and abroad
  • Tennyson's nationalism : epic and lyric in Idylls of the king
  • North's gardens : redemption and the return to origins.