Andromeda's chains : gender and interpretation in Victorian literature and art
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Andromeda's chains : gender and interpretation in Victorian literature and art
Columbia University Press, c1989
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 205-214
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study explores the passion with which Victorian male writers and artists gave meaning to the myth of Perseus and Andromeda and its medieval analogue, the legend of St George and the dragon. It demonstrates how men used the myth to exert their own gender on Victorian culture.
Table of Contents
- Interpretation and gender
- the poetics of rescue, the politics of bondage
- manly allegories
- typologies of defloration
- celestial emblems
- the gender economy.
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