The written and the visual : : representations of women in English nineteenth-century poetry and art / / Malgorzata Luczynska-Holdys.

• Superior document: Gesellschaftskritische Literatur - Texte, Autoren und Debatten ; v.10
• VerfasserIn: Łuczyńska-Hołdys, Małgorzata,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Gesellschaftskritische Literatur - Texte, Autoren und Debatten
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Shaping subjectivity: the experience of female embodiment in William Blake's The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- Essentialism, embodiment and gender -- The dilemmas of adolescence: becoming a woman in The Book of Thel -- The practice of femininity: Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- Chapter Two: Exuberant excess: John Keats's "Isabella -- or, the Pot of Basil" -- Head in a pot and purple fantasies - the romantic grotesque -- Unclaimed experience - trauma and madness in Keats's poem -- From the Romantic to modern aesthetic - visual renderings of "Isabella -- or, the Pot of Basil" -- Chapter Three: Between life and art: Alfred Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" -- Gender, art and sexual politics in "The Lady of Shalott" -- "The Lady of Shalott" on page and canvas -- Inside the tower -- Catastrophe commences -- Outside the tower -- "The Lady of Shalott" as a twentieth-century picture book -- Chapter Four: Female empowerment/female submission. Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" -- Rupturing boundaries: grotesque incongruity, female agency and excessive appetite in "Goblin Market" -- Ruskin, the grotesque and "Goblin Market" -- The ending - contradictions resolved or reinstated? -- Illustrating "Goblin Market": indulgence, violence and aestheticism -- Early days: a fairy story of sin or pleasure? -- At the start of the twentieth century: "Goblin Market" as a cautionary tale -- "Goblin Market" for adult readers -- Instead of Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.