The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature

Subject, Ecology, Form
Herausgeber: Merkling, Emma; Hughes, Thomas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781032356785
• ISBN-10: 1032356782
• Artikelnr.: 69033114

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hughes is an art historian who has published on John Ruskin, Victorian art, ecology and temporality. Emma Merkling is Rome Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Deputy Associate Director of Research at the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1. Idyll as Refuge: The Settler's Dream 2. 'Cutting
So "Sweetly"': Idyllist Wood Engravings and the Lost Boxwood Forests 3.
Multicolour as Disavowal: The Racial Politics of the Nineteenth-Century
Idyll 4. John Addington Symonds's Theocritus and the Homoerotic Idyll in
Sicily 5. Ancient and Modern: Attention and Environmental Change in the
Victorian Pictorial Idyll 6. Queer Pastoral Soundscapes and the Idyllic
Voice: Vernon Lee, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Lady Archibald Campbell 7.
Plant Subjects, Plant Erotics: Julia Margaret Cameron's Creeping Idyll 8.
Wondrous Transformation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Ghirlandata