The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form
Author:   Thomas Hughes (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) ,  Emma Merkling (Durham University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032356785


Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form


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Author:   Thomas Hughes (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) ,  Emma Merkling (Durham University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781032356785


ISBN 10:   1032356782
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   29 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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