The chosen race troubling whiteness in Victorian painting Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammerschlag, Keren Rosa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, English--Political aspects--19th century.

Painting, English.

Race in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press [2026]

Summary:

"From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and indeterminacy in paintings produced in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag explores the many ways Victorian painters engaged with racial ideas at the height of British imperial dominance. While at times these painters reinforced racial hierarchies, at other times they problematized them, revealing race to be a fundamentally unstable organizing principle by which to build an empire and classify its subjects"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Indexing whiteness : racial mixing in paintings of modern Britain

Original sin : Jews versus Anglo-Saxons in Victorian history paintings

Daughters of empire : matchmaking across racial lines in Edwin Long's Babylonian marriage market

Matrilineal descent : racial inheritances in Victorian paintings of mothers and their children

White for white's sake : Whistler, Sargent, and the production of whiteness

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Hammerschlag, Keren Rosa. Chosen race

Print version Hammerschlag, Keren Rosa The Chosen Race

Print version:

ISBN:

9780520420960

0520420969

OCLC:

1528575000

Publisher Number:

CIPO000326617

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license