Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781789974867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Opis

During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces like rivers and the sea were construed as feminised, embodying either the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This study of a unique collection of materials explores the development of the mythical 'water woman' of the time.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Context: Speculations on the Origin of Water - Pure Water - «Troubled» Questions: Water and Women - Sea Water - Sirens and Storms - Domesticated Water.

O autorze

Béatrice Laurent is Professor of Victorian Studies at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne in France. A Pre-Raphaelite scholar, she has edited a volume of essays on William Morris's News from Nowhere (2004) and written La Peinture anglaise (2006) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in refereed journals (The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens). In her books Provence and the British Imagination (co-edited, 2013) and Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth (edited, 2015) she explored the interaction between visual art and theoretical discourses. Her broader field of research deals with the conceptual overlap between art, literature, science and society, particularly in Victorian Britain.