Sisters of Inspiration. From Shakespearean Heroine to Pre-Raphaelite Muse

Autor: Percec Dana
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Gender Studies, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2286-0134
DOI: 10.2478/genst-2021-0001
Popis: The paper aims to make a connection between the female models of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the portrayal of Shakespearean heroines, given that the 19th-century school of painting was using the Bard not only as a source of legitimation and authority, but also as a source of displacement, tackling apparently universal and literary subjects that were in fact disturbing for the Victorian sensibilities, such as love and eroticism, neurosis and madness, or suicide. As more recent scholarship has revealed, the women behind the Brotherhood, while posing as passive and contemplative, objects on display for the public gaze, had more agency and mobility than the average Victorian women.
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