Add to ORKGThomas Albrecht presents a stimulating study of what he calls the “Medusa effect” in Victorian aesthetics. This specific pattern, linked to the mythological figure of Medusa, raises both epistemological and aesthetic issues. The wide range of texts he examines spans a variety of genres and includes works by Gabriel Dante Rosetti, Freud, Nietzsche, Swinburne and Pater as well as George Eliot. They may not all be Victorian in the strict sense, but T. Albrecht does convincingly show that they al..
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
This dissertation investigates literary representations of the scene of viewership in Victorian lite...
A close look at the attitudes of male Romantic poets toward a nature they viewed as feminine reveals...
“Looking Through Words” explores the intersection of the literary and the visual in the nineteenth c...
This essay presents a close analysis of P.B. Shelley’s fragmentary ekphrastic poem “On the Medusa of...
The visual arts featured prominently across Victorian realist texts, and ekphrasis–the verbal repres...
Abstract My dissertation seeks to bring aesthetics into conversation with the epistemological concer...
My twofold aim with this essay is, firstly, to examine the ideas about art expressed in the novel Th...
Oscar Wilde\u27s The Picture of Dorian Gray calls for a reinvention of aestheticism during the Victo...
Pygmalion, Ovid’s story of the sculptor who falls in love with his own statue, later brought to life...
In the late 1870's English society witnessed the rise of the aesthetic movement, a phenomenon which ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [68]-70)The visual imagery in the paintings of Caspar Dav...
This thesis analyses musical imagery created by Victorian artists. It considers paintings, decorativ...
Abstract-Dandyism is a very important and significant social phenomenon in 19th century Europe. This...
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
This dissertation investigates literary representations of the scene of viewership in Victorian lite...
A close look at the attitudes of male Romantic poets toward a nature they viewed as feminine reveals...
“Looking Through Words” explores the intersection of the literary and the visual in the nineteenth c...
This essay presents a close analysis of P.B. Shelley’s fragmentary ekphrastic poem “On the Medusa of...
The visual arts featured prominently across Victorian realist texts, and ekphrasis–the verbal repres...
Abstract My dissertation seeks to bring aesthetics into conversation with the epistemological concer...
My twofold aim with this essay is, firstly, to examine the ideas about art expressed in the novel Th...
Oscar Wilde\u27s The Picture of Dorian Gray calls for a reinvention of aestheticism during the Victo...
Pygmalion, Ovid’s story of the sculptor who falls in love with his own statue, later brought to life...
In the late 1870's English society witnessed the rise of the aesthetic movement, a phenomenon which ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [68]-70)The visual imagery in the paintings of Caspar Dav...
This thesis analyses musical imagery created by Victorian artists. It considers paintings, decorativ...
Abstract-Dandyism is a very important and significant social phenomenon in 19th century Europe. This...
The thesis argues that, from the early nineteenth century onwards, primarily in response to the ever...
This dissertation reconsiders the social forces and intellectual discourses to which British Aesthet...
This dissertation investigates literary representations of the scene of viewership in Victorian lite...