Pleasures taken : performances of sexuality and loss in Victorian photographs
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Pleasures taken : performances of sexuality and loss in Victorian photographs
I.B. Tauris, 1996, c1995
Available at 3 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [159]-165
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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