Pleasures taken : performances of sexuality and loss in Victorian photographs

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Pleasures taken : performances of sexuality and loss in Victorian photographs

Carol Mavor

I.B. Tauris, 1996, c1995

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Bibliography: p. [159]-165

Includes index

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Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, "maid of all work", pictured in masquerade - Carol Mavor addresses the erotic possibilities of these images, exploring not ony the sexualities of the girls, maids and Madonnas, but the pleasures taken - by the viewer, the photographer, the model - in imagining these sexualities.

Table of Contents

  • Dream rushes - Lewis Carroll's photographs of little girls
  • to make Mary - Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of altered Madonnas
  • touching netherplaces - invisibility in the photographs of Hannah Cullwick
  • conclusion - after-time.

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