Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’
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Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire

About this book

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the Old and New Testament. This book is the first comprehensive study of these works, examining Cameron's use of historical allegories and popular iconography to embed moral, intellectual and political narratives in her photographs. A work of cultural history as much as art history, this book examines cartoons from Punch and line drawings from the Illustrated London News, cabinet photographs and autotype prints, textiles and wall paper, book illustrations and lithographs from period folios, all as a way to contextualise the allegorical subjects that Cameron represented, revealing connections between her 'Fancy subjects' and popular debates about such topics as Biblical interpretation, democratic government and colonial expansion.

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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781526118851
9781784993177
eBook ISBN
9781784997908
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures and tables
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Note to the reader
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Saint-Pierre’s exiles: myths of origins and national identity
  11. 2 Jowett’s scriptures: the moral life and the state
  12. 3 Grote’s Hellenism: Victorian Parnassus on the Isle of Wight
  13. 4 Byron’s ‘Beauties’: national heroines and defenders of liberty
  14. 5 Overstone’s ‘Negromania’: justness and justice at home and abroad
  15. 6 Tennyson’s nationalism: epic and lyric in Idylls of the King
  16. 7 North’s gardens: redemption and the return to origins
  17. Conclusion
  18. Index

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