Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
Reihe: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth
Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 369 g
Reihe: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
ISBN: 978-3-0343-1745-0
Verlag: Lang, Peter
The figure of the beautiful reclining female sleeper is a recurring theme in the Victorian imagination, invoking visual, literary and erotic connotations that contribute to a complex range of readings involving aesthetics, gender definitions and contemporary medical opinion. This book compiles and examines a corpus of Sleeping Beauties drawn from Victorian medical reports, literature and the arts and explores the significance of the enduring revival of the myth.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Contents: Muriel Adrien: What Did Victorian Sleeping Beauties Dream of? About the Great Number of Representations of Sleep in the Late Nineteenth Century – Béatrice Laurent: The Strange Case of the Victorian Sleeping Maid – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas: The ‘ghastly waxwork at the fair’: Charles Dickens’s Sleeping Beauty in Great Expectations – Manuela D’Amore: Engendering Creative Negativity: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (1866) – Stefania Arcara: Sleep and Liberation: The Opiate World of Elizabeth Siddal – Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: Immortal and Deadly Icons: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Sleeping Beauties – Cristina Pascu-Tulbure: Aesthetics of Desire: Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Their Sleeping Beauties – Anne Chassagnol: Nuptial Dreams and Toxic Fantasies: Visions of Feminine Desire in John Anster Fitzgerald’s Fairy Paintings The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of (1858) – Marie Cordié-Levy: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Sleeping Beauties – Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: Beneath the Surface: Sleeping Beauties in Representations of Antiquity and their Reception (1860–1900).