Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body by Kimberly Rhodes

By Kimberly Rhodes

Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary e-book is the 1st to discover absolutely the advanced representational historical past of Shakespeare's Ophelia in the course of the Victorian interval. In nineteenth-century Britain, the form, functionality and illustration of women's our bodies have been usually regulated and interpreted by way of private and non-private associations, whereas emblematic fictional lady figures like Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood. Rhodes examines the commonly disseminated representations of Ophelia, from works via visible artists and writers, to interpretations of her personality in modern productions of Hamlet, revealing her as a nexus of the fight for the feminine body's subjugation. by means of contemplating a huge variety of fabrics, together with works through Anna Lea Merritt, Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais, and paying distinctive awareness to photographs girls produced, Rhodes illuminates Ophelia as a determine whose value crossed classification and nationwide obstacles. Her research yields attention-grabbing insights into 'high' and mass tradition and permits transnational comparisons that show the compelling institutions between Ophelia, gender roles, physique picture and nationwide identity.

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