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Artists, scientists and the wider public of the Victorian era all seem to have shared a common interest in the myth of the Briar Rose and its contemporary implications, from the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian aesthetes to the fascinated crowds who visited Ellen Sadler, the real-life 'Sleeping Maid' who is reported to have slept from 1871 to 1880.
The figure of the beautiful reclining female sleeper is a recurring theme in the Victorian imagination, invoking visual, literary and erotic connotations that contribute to a complex range of readings involving aesthetics, gender definitions and contemporary medical opinion. This book compiles and examines a corpus of Sleeping Beauties drawn from Victorian medical reports, literature and the arts and explores the significance of the enduring revival of the myth.
Contents
Contents: Muriel Adrien: What Did Victorian Sleeping Beauties Dream of? About the Great Number of Representations of Sleep in the Late Nineteenth Century - Béatrice Laurent: The Strange Case of the Victorian Sleeping Maid - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas: The 'ghastly waxwork at the fair': Charles Dickens's Sleeping Beauty in Great Expectations - Manuela D'Amore: Engendering Creative Negativity: Anne Thackeray Ritchie's The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (1866) - Stefania Arcara: Sleep and Liberation: The Opiate World of Elizabeth Siddal - Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: Immortal and Deadly Icons: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Sleeping Beauties - Cristina Pascu-Tulbure: Aesthetics of Desire: Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Their Sleeping Beauties - Anne Chassagnol: Nuptial Dreams and Toxic Fantasies: Visions of Feminine Desire in John Anster Fitzgerald's Fairy Paintings The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of (1858) - Marie Cordié-Levy: Julia Margaret Cameron's Sleeping Beauties - Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada: Beneath the Surface: Sleeping Beauties in Representations of Antiquity and their Reception (1860-1900).