There has been much investigation of fantasy as a literary genre, but little scrutiny of the subject as a visual art mode. The primary purpose of this thesis is to expose the significant and underreported effect of late Victorian visual art on the nascent mode of modern fantasy. This study begins by examining how the fantasy mode can be discerned through attention to configurations of space and time in artworks which attempt to create Secondary Worlds. It argues that the presence of the fantasy “chronotopes” of enclosure, density, distortion, and temporal dislocation in English art c. 1850-1920 constituted a novel art mode that developed in concurrence with fantasy literature. Thus, while past scholarship has located the genesis of fantasy ...
The British Gothic novel reached a level of very high popularity in the literary market of the late ...
In this dissertation, I argue that George MacDonald’s, Charles Kingsley’s, and Christina Rossetti’s ...
110004868187William Shakespeare evokes different reactions in every succeeding age and culture which...
This Ph. D. thesis investigates the use of fantasy by British and Irish 'Decadent' authors and illus...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain saw a proliferation of sumptuously illu...
I will prepare an in-depth examination of the different, often opposing ways illustrators Walter Cra...
In this thesis I examine the ways in which the Victorians used fantasy in literature, art, and arch...
"This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, English Department, Faculty of Art...
To conceive of the illustrated book as a collaboration between prominent Victorian authors and illus...
This thesis considers the use a range of writers in the early to mid-Victorian period have made of i...
The visual arts featured prominently across Victorian realist texts, and ekphrasis–the verbal repres...
This thesis offers a study of a particular period (1884-1899) in Britain in which Fantastic literatu...
The title of this thesis, Images of the Maker, has been chosen to suggest that during the period 18...
This study examines the development of the modern fantasy novel from its origins in the late ninetee...
Recognizing that the grotesque is a common characteristic of much popular art, and recognizing that ...
The British Gothic novel reached a level of very high popularity in the literary market of the late ...
In this dissertation, I argue that George MacDonald’s, Charles Kingsley’s, and Christina Rossetti’s ...
110004868187William Shakespeare evokes different reactions in every succeeding age and culture which...
This Ph. D. thesis investigates the use of fantasy by British and Irish 'Decadent' authors and illus...
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain saw a proliferation of sumptuously illu...
I will prepare an in-depth examination of the different, often opposing ways illustrators Walter Cra...
In this thesis I examine the ways in which the Victorians used fantasy in literature, art, and arch...
"This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, English Department, Faculty of Art...
To conceive of the illustrated book as a collaboration between prominent Victorian authors and illus...
This thesis considers the use a range of writers in the early to mid-Victorian period have made of i...
The visual arts featured prominently across Victorian realist texts, and ekphrasis–the verbal repres...
This thesis offers a study of a particular period (1884-1899) in Britain in which Fantastic literatu...
The title of this thesis, Images of the Maker, has been chosen to suggest that during the period 18...
This study examines the development of the modern fantasy novel from its origins in the late ninetee...
Recognizing that the grotesque is a common characteristic of much popular art, and recognizing that ...
The British Gothic novel reached a level of very high popularity in the literary market of the late ...
In this dissertation, I argue that George MacDonald’s, Charles Kingsley’s, and Christina Rossetti’s ...
110004868187William Shakespeare evokes different reactions in every succeeding age and culture which...