English art 1860-1914 : modern artists and identity
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English art 1860-1914 : modern artists and identity
（The barber institute's critical perspectives in art history series）
Manchester University Press, 2000
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: hbk ISBN 9780719055195
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How "modern" is the art made in England between 1860 and 1914? England in the period was a highly modernized society, but the art it produced is not "modernist" in the sense that the word has been used to describe advanced French art of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book breaks the association of "modern" art in England with French models and to describe anew the relationship between English art, England's artists and their modern culture.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719055201
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In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan, and the problems its existence poses, in the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. In doing so, Laura Peters considers certain canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated.
The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference.
Orphan texts will be of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture. -- .
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