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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.
- Photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Photography.
- Symbolism in art.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Histoire--19e siècle.
- Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Livres numeriques.
- History.
- Ressources Internet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- 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.
- 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:
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781784997908
- 1784997900
- 9781526109811
- 1526109816
- 9781784997465
- 1784997463
- OCLC:
- 1090472588
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