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Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England - My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England - My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Exploring the concept of portrait as memoir, Women, Portraiture and
the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous
Reconsidered examines the images and lives of four prominent
Victorian women who steered their way through scandal to forge
unique identities. The volume shows the effect of celebrity, and
even notoriety, on the lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Dilke,
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Sarah Grand. For these women, their
portraits were more than speaking likenesses-whether painted or
photographic, they became crucial tools the women used to negotiate
their controversial identities. Women, Portraiture and the Crisis
of Identity in Victorian England shows that the fascinating power
of celebrity - and specifically its effects on women - was as much
of a phenomenon in Victorian times as it is today. Colleen Denney
explores how these women used their portraits as tools of
persuasion, performing a domestic masquerade to secure privacy and
acceptance, or sites of resistance, tearing down male constructions
of female propriety and fighting Victorian stereotypes of
intellectual women. Questioning the classic Victorian notions of
"separate spheres," this volume celebrates women's search for self
within the constraints of the nineteenth century, as well as within
the world of present-day academia.
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