Andromeda's chains : gender and interpretation in Victorian literature and art

Author

Munich, Adrienne Auslander

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill.; bibliogr.; index ; xii, 222 p. ; 1989

ISBN

0231068727

Publisher

Columbia University Press, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Explores the power and the passion with which male writers and artists from the 1830s to the 1890s gave meaning to the Perseus and Andromeda myth and its cognate, S. George and the dragon. Considers the reasons for the Victorian fascination with the myth, the interpretative methods used to produce divergent meanings, and the cultural implications of Victorian interpretations from the vantage of 20th c. criticism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United Kingdom
• Art
• Literature
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Victorian
• Iconography
• Perseus (mythical figure)
• George, S.
• Dragons
• Men
• Authors
• Artists
• Sex
• Hermeneutics
• Ideology
• Feminism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Royaume-Uni
• Art
• Littérature
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Victorien (art)
• Iconographie
• Persée (personnage mythologique)
• Georges, saint
• Dragon
• Hommes
• Auteurs
• Artistes
• Sexe
• Herméneutique
• Idéologie
• Féminisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00448498

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