Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting

by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Book Overview

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the Athenaeum in 1858, 'the distinction of man and woman, their separate as well as their joint rights, begins to occupy the attention of our whole community, and with no small effect'. These essays examine Victorian painting in the light of this 'woman question' by analysing the change in representation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859281524
• ISBN13: 9781859281529
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"