Isbn: 9781474421454 - suffragist artists in partnership: gender, word and image (edinburgh critical studies in victorian culture) (7 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 260pp, octavo. tight binding, clean throughout, crisp pages, clean and glossy boards, mildly bumped corner, Near Fine.

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Zustand: New. This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans - Victorian artists, writers and suffragists This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century. The author traces their relationship to early and more recent feminism, reclaiming them as influential early feminists and reading their works from twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. By focusing on neglected female figures in creative partnerships, the book challenges longstanding perceptions of them as the subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists and of their marriages as representatives of the traditional gender binary. This is also the first academic critical study of Mary Watts's recently published diaries, Evelyn De Morgan's unpublished writings and other previously unexplored archival material by the Wattses and the De Morgans. Key Features:- Reveals the ways in which the couples promoted progressive socio-political ideas- Draws on extensive archival research and analyses unpublished writings, including diaries and poems- Focuses on neglected female figures in creative partnerships to challenge longstanding perceptions of them as the submissive or subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists, and of their marriages as representatives of the traditional gender binary- Shows how male and female writers and artists engaged with mid-to-late Victorian feminism together and individually, reclaiming them as influential early feminists.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.