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Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' : photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire / Jeff Rosen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosen, Jeff, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
- Cameron, Julia Margaret.
- Photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Photography.
- Symbolism in art.
- Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle, and Darwin. But Cameron also made numerous photographs called 'fancy subjects' that depicted scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and biblical parables from the Old and New Testament. Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first comprehensive study of these works, examining Cameron's use of historical allegories and popular iconography to embed moral, intellectual, and political narratives in her photographs. A work of cultural history as much as art history, this book examines cartoons from Punch and line drawings from the Illustrated London News; cabinet photographs and Autotype prints; textiles and wall paper; book illustrations and engravings from period folios, all as a way to contextualize the allegorical subjects that Cameron represented, revealing connections between her 'fancy subjects' and popular debates about such topics as biblical interpretation, democratic government, national identity, and colonial expansion.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784997908
- 1784997900
- 9781526109811
- 1526109816
- 9781784997465
- 1784997463
- OCLC:
- 1090472588
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