Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner CollectionThis is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers' and artists' faces that circulated through the British periodical press, through exhibition spaces in London, and through book publishing, and such late-Victorian cultural obsessions as defining genius, masculinity, femininity, and class status. It focuses in particular on the figure of Oscar Wilde as the writer who best exploited the new market for portraits in advancing his own career, but moves beyond him to look at the broader topic of how and why writers' and artists' faces were idealized, caricatured, and also studied by the general public. notions of modernity created through advertising, public relations, and commodification. Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. |
Contents
FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS | 17 |
William Allingham 18241889 | 18 |
William Archer 18561924 | 20 |
Sir J M James Matthew Barrie 18601937 | 24 |
Aubrey Beardsley 18721898 | 26 |
Aubrey Beardsley 18721898 | 28 |
Sir Max Beerbohm 18721956 | 29 |
Sir Max Beerbohm 18721956 | 30 |
Jane Morris 18401914 | 76 |
William Morris 18341896 | 78 |
E Edith Nesbit 18581924 | 79 |
Ida Nettleship 18771907 | 80 |
Walter Pater 18391894 | 82 |
Joseph Pennell 18571926 | 84 |
Lucien Pissarro 18631944 | 86 |
Charles de Sousy Ricketts 18661931 | 88 |
Sir Max Beerbohm 18721956 | 32 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 18401922 | 34 |
Sir Edward BurneJones 18331898 | 35 |
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine 18541930 | 36 |
Ella DArcy 18561937 | 38 |
George Du Maurier 18341896 | 40 |
George Egerton Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright 18591945 | 42 |
George Eliot Mary Ann Evans 18191880 | 43 |
Michael Field Katherine Bradley 18481914 and Edith Cooper 18621913 | 44 |
Harry Furniss 18541925 | 45 |
Sarah Grand Frances Clarke McFall 18541943 | 46 |
John Gray 18661934 | 48 |
Thomas Hardy 18401928 | 50 |
Henry Harland 18611905 | 52 |
Frank Harris 18561931 | 54 |
W E William ErnestHenley 18491903 | 56 |
A E Alfred Edward Housman 18591936 | 58 |
Sir Henry Irving 18381905 | 59 |
Sir Henry Irving 18381905 | 60 |
Henry James 18431916 | 62 |
Rudyard Kipling 18651936 | 64 |
RichardLe Gallienne 18671947 | 66 |
Richard Le Gallienne 18671947 | 67 |
Caroline Blanche Lady Lindsay née Fitzroy 18441912 | 68 |
Violet Manners nee Lindsay Duchess of Rutland 18561937 | 70 |
Phil May 18641903 | 71 |
George Meredith 18281909 | 72 |
Alice Meynell 18471922 | 73 |
T Thomas Sturge Moore 18701944 | 74 |
W Walford Graham Robertson 18661948 | 90 |
W Graham Robertson 18661948 with members of the Loony Club including H J Henry Justice Ford 18601940 | 91 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 18281882 | 92 |
Sir William Rothenstein 18721945 | 93 |
Sir William Rothenstein 18721945 | 94 |
John Singer Sargent 18561925 | 96 |
Olive Schreiner 18551920 | 98 |
George Bernard Shaw 18561950 | 100 |
Walter Sicken 18601942 | 102 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne 18371909 | 104 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne 18371909 | 106 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson 18091892 | 108 |
Dame Ellen Terry 18471928 | 110 |
Victoria Queen of Great Britain 18191901 | 112 |
H G Herbert George Wells 18661946 | 114 |
James McNeill Whistler 18341903 | 116 |
James McNeill Whistler 18341903 | 118 |
Oscar Wilde 18541900 | 120 |
Oscar Wilde 18541900 | 122 |
Oscar Wilde 18541900 | 124 |
W B William Butler Yeats 18651939 | 126 |
Living English Poets | 128 |
Copes Christmas Card December 1883 | 130 |
PROVENANCE EXHIBITIONS AND LITERATURE | 131 |
LIST OF SHORT TITLES | 133 |
PROVENANCE EXHIBITIONS AND LITERATURE | 135 |
INDEX | 149 |
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