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Facing the Late Victorians
Margaret D. Stetz
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Description for Facing the Late Victorians
Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 540.
This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers' and artists' faces that circulated through the British periodical press, through exhibition spaces in London, and through book publishing, and such late-Victorian cultural obsessions as defining 'genius,' masculinity, femininity, and class status. It focuses in particular on the figure of Oscar Wilde as the writer who best exploited ... Read more
This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers' and artists' faces that circulated through the British periodical press, through exhibition spaces in London, and through book publishing, and such late-Victorian cultural obsessions as defining 'genius,' masculinity, femininity, and class status. It focuses in particular on the figure of Oscar Wilde as the writer who best exploited ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493283
SKU
V9781611493283
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99-15
About Margaret D. Stetz
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities at the University of Delaware.
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