This collection of original essays offers a broad and varied
discussion of gender issues and treatments of sexuality in
Victorian poetry, fiction, and visual arts. Featuring a
representative selection of artists-poets, novelists, painters,
sculptors, playwrights, and dancers-these critical analyses explore
the ways in which women as artists, as subjects, and as icons
function either to challenge and revise or to reify their society's
gender ideologies. Enhanced by a diversity of approaches, the
collection introduces revisionist readings of well-known literary
works and examines interconnections between literature and the
visual arts. In the first two parts, which address Victorian poetry
and fiction, the readings illuminate previously unexplained
features of poems and novels by such writers as Alfred Tennyson,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, A.
C. Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne Bront\u00eb, Charles
Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Kate Chopin,
and Oscar Wilde. The third part of the collection focuses on the
themes of gender conventions and subversions that occur in visual
representations-paintings and cartoons, sculpture and architectural
reliefs, drama, opera, and music-hall dance. Rather than presenting
literature and art as self-contained, the collection advances the
assumption that creative works participate in a larger ideological
current of society. Thus, where relevant, the contributors
reference politics, economics, science, and other modes of cultural
discourse. Such an approach retrieves the historical contexts
surrounding the production and reception of the poetry, fiction,
and visual arts examined.
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