Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England
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Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England
My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered
Denney, Colleen
Taylor & Francis Ltd
08/2009
274
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Inglês
9780754668794
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Contents: Preface; Introduction: portraying smart women: scandalous revelations; Part 1 Victorian Scandals and Visual Tools of Persuasion: 'Sex, money and dirt': Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Powell Frith, and the business of respectability; Victorian scandals and desperate political wives: a case study of Lady Dilke. Part 2 Challenging the Status Quo: A Woman's Modern Identity Formation as a Site of Resistance: 'Voiceless London': Millicent Garrett Fawcett's embodiment of the common cause or, resisting the scandal of the platform; Sarah Grand and the scandal of the new woman novelist; The scandal of the feminist woman at the fin de siecle: cultural critique in Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband (1895); Bibliography; Index.
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Lady Dilke;Sir Charles Dilke;Victorine Meurent;Sarah Grand;Scandalous Woman;Sir Robert Chiltern;Lady Audley's Secret;Miss Braddon;Lady Chiltern;Susan Sidlauskas;Ford Madox Brown;Lady Audley;Zola Essay;Heavenly Twins;Andrew's University;Established Culture;Ideal Husband;Tanagra Statuette;Woman's Physical Presence;Bath Citizens;Wilde's Play;Victorian Respectability;Wilde's Descriptions;Younger Men;Political Wife
Contents: Preface; Introduction: portraying smart women: scandalous revelations; Part 1 Victorian Scandals and Visual Tools of Persuasion: 'Sex, money and dirt': Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Powell Frith, and the business of respectability; Victorian scandals and desperate political wives: a case study of Lady Dilke. Part 2 Challenging the Status Quo: A Woman's Modern Identity Formation as a Site of Resistance: 'Voiceless London': Millicent Garrett Fawcett's embodiment of the common cause or, resisting the scandal of the platform; Sarah Grand and the scandal of the new woman novelist; The scandal of the feminist woman at the fin de siecle: cultural critique in Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband (1895); Bibliography; Index.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Lady Dilke;Sir Charles Dilke;Victorine Meurent;Sarah Grand;Scandalous Woman;Sir Robert Chiltern;Lady Audley's Secret;Miss Braddon;Lady Chiltern;Susan Sidlauskas;Ford Madox Brown;Lady Audley;Zola Essay;Heavenly Twins;Andrew's University;Established Culture;Ideal Husband;Tanagra Statuette;Woman's Physical Presence;Bath Citizens;Wilde's Play;Victorian Respectability;Wilde's Descriptions;Younger Men;Political Wife
