オフィーリアとヴィクトリア朝の視覚文化 Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture : Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Rhodes, Kimberly

Routledge（2008/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.／サイズ 49 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780754658764
• DDC分類 704.9424

基本説明

Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. Her analysis yields fascinating insights into 'high' and mass culture and enables transnational comparisons that reveal the compelling associations among Ophelia, gender roles, body image and national identity.

Full Description

Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain, the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were typically regulated and interpreted by public and private institutions, while emblematic fictional female figures like Ophelia functioned as idealized templates of Victorian womanhood. Rhodes examines the widely disseminated representations of Ophelia, from works by visual artists and writers, to interpretations of her character in contemporary productions of Hamlet, revealing her as a nexus of the struggle for the female body's subjugation. By considering a broad range of materials, including works by Anna Lea Merritt, Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais, and paying special attention to images women produced, Rhodes illuminates Ophelia as a figure whose importance crossed class and national boundaries. Her analysis yields fascinating insights into 'high' and mass culture and enables transnational comparisons that reveal the compelling associations among Ophelia, gender roles, body image and national identity.

Contents

Contents: Introduction; 'Pretty Opelia': mid-century ideals in the parlor; 'Pretty Ophelia': mid-century ideals at the Royal Academy; The pre-Raphaelite crisis; From life: Ophelia and photography; Performance anxiety: pictorial and theatrical representations at the fin-de-siècle; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.