Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects': Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire

by Jeff Rosen

Book Overview

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the Old and New Testament. This book is the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526118858
• ISBN13: 9781526118851
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.4"