Victorian Visual Culture

Lily Langtry (the real Irene Adler?): capitalizing scandal September 26, 2014 - (4)
There’s a subset among literary critics whose main purpose is to assign famous historical identities to fictional characters. According to some of this group, the would-be blackmailer Irene Adler from the Sherlock Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia” represents Lillie Langtry, sometime mistress of the notoriously debauched Prince of Wales (Wolff 286). Langtry was a […]
Knowing When You Look September 24, 2014 - (5)
Outside The Cannon: Carrie Mae Weems Lecture & Lunch Review September 24, 2014 - (0)
“I have thought of this. I have not dismissed the thing”: Visuality and Poverty in On Duty with Inspector Field and The Empathy Exams September 18, 2014 - (0)
“It’s Too Real!”: Thomas Eakins and Portraiture September 18, 2014 - (1)

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