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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820168603321

Autore

Rosen Jeff <1957->

Titolo

Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’ : Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire / / Jeff Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78499-790-0

1-5261-0981-6

1-78499-746-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

770.92

Soggetti

Symbolism in art

Photography

Symbolisme dans l'art

Photographie - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siècle

Photography - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Livres numeriques.

History

Ressources Internet

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle

Great Britain History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.