Béatrice Laurent (ed.), Sleeping Beauties in Victorian England: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth

The ten articles collected in this volume by Béatrice Laurent deal with the literary and pictorial representations of sleeping women in Victorian Britain, and mostly originate from a seminar held during the 2012 ESSE conference in Istanbul. First, let us notice that the book itself, as an object, is quite nice and provides the readers with relevant illustrations, which is highly appreciable, especially with the articles about painting and photography. This volume gives an interesting overvie..