Title The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature Subject, Ecology, Form

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (205 p.) Series Routledge Research in Art History Series Routledge Research in Art History Series Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter Overview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Idyll as Refuge: The Settler's Dream -- Abolition's Idyll: The History of Mary Prince -- Printed Idylls: Friendship's Offering -- The Migrant's Idyll: Making Still -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 'Cutting So "Sweetly".': Idyllist Wood Engravings and the Lost Boxwood Forests -- The Gift Book and 'The Star's Monument': John William North and Jean Ingelow 'Cutting So "Sweetly".': Disappearing Box -- Myles Birket Foster's 'Idyllic Beauty': Illustrations of Felled Trees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Multicolour as Disavowal: The Racial Politics of the Nineteenth-Century Idyll -- Part One: Alfred Tennyson, 'Enoch Arden' -- The Reproductive Engine -- Reticulation and Substitution in 'Enoch Arden' -- Part Two: the Idyllic White-Out of the 1860s -- Part Three: Balladic Forms of Reproduction -- Late Tennyson and the Avowal of the Disavowed -- Orientalism and the Idyll -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography 4 John Addington Symonds's Theocritus and the Homoerotic Idyll in Sicily -- Homosexual Codes -- The Desire for Nature and the Nature of Desire -- Desire in Theocritus' Idylls -- The Historicity of Doric Greek Love -- Symonds and Von Gloeden in Sicily -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Ancient and Modern: Attention and Environmental Change in the Victorian Pictorial Idyll -- The Classical Idyll -- The Modern Idyll -- The Ecological Idyll -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Queer Pastoral Soundscapes and the Idyllic Voice: Vernon Lee, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Lady Archibald Campbell Sounds Natural: Lady Archibald Campbell and As You Like It -- Aural Anachronism: Vernon Lee and The Faithfull Shepherdesse -- Soprano Qualities: Mary Robinson's Disembodied Voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Plant Subjects, Plant Erotics: Julia Margaret Cameron's Creeping Idyll -- Plant Subjects -- Plant Erotics -- Coda: Plant Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Wondrous Transformation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Ghirlandata -- The Personage of the Wreath -- Mysterious Powers -- Aestheticist Idyll -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Arts, Victorian -- Themes, motives Pastoral art -- Great Britain Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism Arts and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Form Electronic book Author Merkling, Emma ISBN 9781003834120 1003834124

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