Jane Morris by Wendy Parkins
Described by Henry James as a 'dark, silent, medieval woman', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a rather one-dimensional figure in subsequent accounts. This book, however, challenges the stereotype of Jane Morris as silent model, reclusive invalid, and unfaithful wife. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as the biographical and literary tradition surrounding William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the book argues that Jane Morris is a figure who complicates current understandings of Victorian female subjectivity because she does not fit neatly into Victorian categories of feminine identity. She was a working-class woman who married into middle-class affluence, an artist's model who became an accomplished embroiderer and designer, and an apparently reclusive, silent invalid who was the lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Wilfred Scawen Blunt. Jane Morris and the Burden of History particularly focuses on textual representations - in letters, diaries, memoirs and novels - from the Victorian period onwards, in order to investigate the cultural transmission and resilience of the stereotype of Jane Morris. Drawing on recent reconceptualisations of gender, auto/biography, and afterlives, this book urges readers to think differently - about an extraordinary woman and about life-writing in the Victorian period.-
Suffragist Artists in Partnership
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
- Walter Pater
- Spirit Becomes Matter
- William Morris and the Idea of Community
- Moving Images
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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 1860
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Determined Spirits
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The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
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The Fin-De-Siecle Scottish Revival
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The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
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Rudyard Kipling's Fiction
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London's Underground Spaces
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Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Victorian Auto/Biography
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Olive Schreiner and the Politics of Print Culture, 1883-1920
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Gender, Technology and the New Woman
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Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry
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Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
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Novel Institutions
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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
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The Victorian Male Body
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism
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Blasted Literature
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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
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The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
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In Lady Audley's Shadow
Parkins’ deeply original and lucid book advances current life-writing scholarship to show how theoretically informed critical readings of representations of Jane Morris can restore self and subjectivity to full historical complexityIt’s essential reading for scholars of the Victorian period with interests in ‘lives’ and their multiple locations and meanings.
Wendy Parkins is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Kent, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399574358 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399574353 |
| Title | Jane Morris |
| Author | Wendy Parkins |
| Series | Edinburgh Critical Studies In Victorian Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2027-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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