Jane Morris : the burden of history /

A scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to grace a range of Pre-Raphaelite merchandise Described by Henry James as a 'dark, silent, medieval woman', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a rather one-dimensional figure in subsequent acc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parkins, Wendy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Temas:
Morris, Jane, > 1839-1914.
Morris, Jane, > 1839-1914
Artists' models > England > Biography.
Modèles (Art) > Angleterre > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART > History > General.
Artists' models
England
Electronic books.
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface.
  • Introduction : life and letters ("Is it not too daring and altogether too inexplicable?" : gossip, anecdote and biography.
  • Suet and strawberries : life writing and habitus).
  • Scandal ("The lady I spoke about" : Jane and Gabriel.
  • "In thy shut lips what secrets!" : Jane and Wilfrid).
  • Silence ("What more can I say" : the reticence of Jane Morris.
  • "Dear suffering Janey" : the myth of invalidism).
  • Class (Social mobility and "rather sad lives".
  • Politics and "socialism on the brain").
  • Icon (Wonder : "she haunts me still".
  • Celebrity : the style of "the famous Mrs Morris").
  • Home ("So much love dearest" : Jane Morris at home.
  • Si je puis : Jane Morris's creative agency).
  • Conclusion.

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