Becoming by Carol Mavor
Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. In this title, these pictures become windows into Victorian culture, eroticism, mother-daughter relationships, and intimacy.
“The author’s perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, exhibition, maternity, sexuality, just to name a few of the themes in play here, open up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does”—Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel
“Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure—indeed, unforgettable.”—Richard Howard
“Handsomely written and carefully researched, this book will have large appeal. It is a real treasure—indeed, unforgettable.”—Richard Howard
Carol Mavor is Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Pleasures Taken: Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, also published by Duke University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822323891 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822323893 |
| Title | Becoming |
| Author | Carol Mavor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 1999-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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