The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-35678-5 (ISBN)
Chapters trace the Victorian idyll’s emergence in the 1830s, its flourishing in the 1860s, and its evolution up to the century’s close, drawing attention to the radicalism of idyllic experiments with pictorial, photographic, dramatic, literary, and poetic form in the work of canonical and lesser-known figures. Approaching the idyll through three intersecting categories—subject, ecology, and form—this book remaps Victorian culture, reshaping thinking about artistic form in the nineteenth century, and recalibrating accepted chronologies. In the representations by a host of Victorian artists and writers engaging with other-than-human forms, and in the natures of the subjectivities animated by these encounters, we find versions of Victorian ecology providing provocative imaginative material for ecocritics, scholars, writers, and artists today.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, English literature, Victorian studies, British history, queer and trans* theory, musicology, and ecocriticism, and will enliven debates pertaining to the environmental across periods.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 Halftones, color; 25 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 1390 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-35678-2 / 1032356782 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-35678-5 / 9781032356785 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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