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Women, portraiture and the crisis of identity in Victorian England : My lady scandalous reconsidered / Colleen Denney.
- Title
- Women, portraiture and the crisis of identity in Victorian England : My lady scandalous reconsidered / Colleen Denney.
- Author
- Denney, Colleen, 1959-
- Publication
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7635 .D46 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 260 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Portraits
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Portraying smart women : scandalous revelations -- 1. "Sex, money and dirt" : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Powell Frith, and the business of respectability -- 2. Victorian scandals and desperate political wives : a case study of Lady Dilke -- 3. "Voiceless London" : Millicent Garrett Fawcett's embodiment of the common cause, or, resisting the scandal of the platform -- 4. Sarah Grand and the scandal of the new woman novelist -- 5. Scandal of the feminist woman at the fin-de-siecle : cultural critique in Oscar Wilde's play, An ideal husband (1895).
- ISBN
- 9780754668794 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0754668797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009010008
- OCLC
- 317067914
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library