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.