Beschreibung
The figure of the beautiful reclining female sleeper is a recurring theme in the Victorian imagination. This book compiles and examines a corpus of Sleeping Beauties drawn from Victorian medical reports, literature and the arts and explores the significance of the enduring revival of the myth.
Autorenportrait
Béatrice Laurent is Lecturer in Victorian and Cultural Studies at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane in Martinique. A Pre-Raphaelite scholar, she has contributed to
(ed. T. Tobin, 2004) and several issues of the
. She is the editor of a volume of essays on William Morris's
(2004) and the author of
(2006). Her research focuses on the interactions between theoretical discourses and the arts in nineteenth-century Britain.
Rezension
«This volume gives an interesting overview of the topic in various fields of study, so that it may be of interest to scholars specializing not only in literature, but also in history and art history.»
(Julie Sauvage, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 84/2016)
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Inhalt
Contents: Muriel Adrien: What Did Victorian Sleeping Beauties Dream of? About the Great Number of Representations of Sleep in the Late Nineteenth Century – Béatrice Laurent: The Strange Case of the Victorian Sleeping Maid – Laurence Talairach-Vielmas: The ‘ghastly waxwork at the fair’: Charles Dickens’s Sleeping Beauty in
– Manuela D’Amore: Engendering Creative Negativity: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s
(1866) – Stefania Arcara: Sleep and Liberation: The Opiate World of Elizabeth Siddal – Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: Immortal and Deadly Icons: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Sleeping Beauties – Cristina Pascu-Tulbure: Aesthetics of Desire: Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Their Sleeping Beauties – Anne Chassagnol: Nuptial Dreams and Toxic Fantasies: Visions of Feminine Desire in John Anster Fitzgerald’s Fairy Paintings
(1858) – Marie Cordié-Levy: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Sleeping Beauties – Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: Beneath the Surface: Sleeping Beauties in Representations of Antiquity and their Reception (1860–1900).
