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Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination
Taschenbuch von Béatrice Laurent
Sprache: Englisch

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During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces ¿ marshland, rivers and the sea ¿ were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This essentialised the concept of feminine fluidity at the same time as it supported the construction of a standard masculinity defined by stability. The conundrum of solidity versus liquidity created a dialectical bond which was often one of subjection: water had to serve matter. It had to be purified, tamed and channelled to become an available and reliable commodity.

The facts, objects, texts of fiction and non-fiction, art and other visual sources presented in this volume may seem to share nothing other than their concerns with water and women in nineteenth-century Britain. Yet, by juxtaposing the figures of Ophelia and the Mermaid, scenes of shipwrecks, accounts of hydrotherapy cures, acts of Parliament on sanitation, and other material, the author argues that these various and apparently unrelated texts converge towards a central mythical figure, the «water woman».
During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces ¿ marshland, rivers and the sea ¿ were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This essentialised the concept of feminine fluidity at the same time as it supported the construction of a standard masculinity defined by stability. The conundrum of solidity versus liquidity created a dialectical bond which was often one of subjection: water had to serve matter. It had to be purified, tamed and channelled to become an available and reliable commodity.

The facts, objects, texts of fiction and non-fiction, art and other visual sources presented in this volume may seem to share nothing other than their concerns with water and women in nineteenth-century Britain. Yet, by juxtaposing the figures of Ophelia and the Mermaid, scenes of shipwrecks, accounts of hydrotherapy cures, acts of Parliament on sanitation, and other material, the author argues that these various and apparently unrelated texts converge towards a central mythical figure, the «water woman».
Über den Autor
Béatrice Laurent is Professor of Victorian Studies at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne in France. A Pre-Raphaelite scholar, she has edited a volume of essays on William Morris¿s News from Nowhere (2004) and written La Peinture anglaise (2006) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in refereed journals (The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens). In her books Provence and the British Imagination (co-edited, 2013) and Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth (edited, 2015) she explored the interaction between visual art and theoretical discourses. Her broader field of research deals with the conceptual overlap between art, literature, science and society, particularly in Victorian Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS: Context: Speculations on the Origin of Water - Pure Water - 'Troubled' Questions: Water and Women - Sea Water - Sirens and Storms - Domesticated Water.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
ISBN-13: 9781789974867
ISBN-10: 1789974860
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Laurent, Béatrice
Redaktion: Laurent, Béatrice
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Béatrice Laurent
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,399 kg
Artikel-ID: 119749947
Über den Autor
Béatrice Laurent is Professor of Victorian Studies at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne in France. A Pre-Raphaelite scholar, she has edited a volume of essays on William Morris¿s News from Nowhere (2004) and written La Peinture anglaise (2006) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in refereed journals (The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens). In her books Provence and the British Imagination (co-edited, 2013) and Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth (edited, 2015) she explored the interaction between visual art and theoretical discourses. Her broader field of research deals with the conceptual overlap between art, literature, science and society, particularly in Victorian Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CONTENTS: Context: Speculations on the Origin of Water - Pure Water - 'Troubled' Questions: Water and Women - Sea Water - Sirens and Storms - Domesticated Water.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
ISBN-13: 9781789974867
ISBN-10: 1789974860
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Laurent, Béatrice
Redaktion: Laurent, Béatrice
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Béatrice Laurent
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2021
Gewicht: 0,399 kg
Artikel-ID: 119749947
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