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Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900
This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men’s bodies –often working-class ones – and the emotions and material culture associated with them. The book analyses idealised men who stimulated desire and admiration, including virile boxers, soldiers, sailors and blacksmiths, brave firemen and noble industrial workers. It also investigates unmanly men, such as drunkards, wife-beaters and masturbators, who elicited disgust and aversion. Unusually, Manliness in Britain runs from the eras of feeling, revolution and reform to those of militarism, imperialism, representative democracy and mass media, periods often dealt with separately by historians of masculinities.
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Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that complicates conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional, public and private, artistry and industry in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender, artistic labour and creativity in the period. Ultimately, how women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the literary marketplace and related art-industries reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.
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Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th-Century Britain
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain.This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for.
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Victorian Science and Imagery
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when
scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding
boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and
visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in
the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic
representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved
seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to
support or contradict popular scientific theories-such as Darwin's
theory of evolution and sexual selection-deliberately drawing on
concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or
disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship
between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art
historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in
which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture
participated in making science, and in which science informed art
at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern
world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology,
medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of
media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science
and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences.
Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves,
layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the
evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred
responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.
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